On Tue, 06 May 2003 10:28:16 -0700, Sam Simpson wrote: > I'm thinking of using the following on shutdown: > > swapoff -a > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1024k count=64 > sync > mkswap /dev/hda1 > sync > swapon -a > > (after checking that hda1 is swap ;). Any comments or improvements? Maybe use shred instead of dd there. Overwriting swap once doesn't do such a great job of destroying the data; if you assume that someone's going to steal your computer and extract the hard drive then you should assume they can get past that. ;-) Or just use encrypted swap. > Does anyone know if there is a recommended way of doing this under > Solaris? I guess you can do the same kind of thing, but because of the C2 > rating there should be a way of automating this? Nah. You must be under the impression that a C2 rating says something meaningful about a system's overall security. It doesn't. -- Ben Slusky | If Apollo 13 went off course today sluskyb@xxxxxxxxxx | [they'd] open the airlock, flush sluskyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | the astronauts out, and re-install PGP keyID ADA44B3B | new ones. -Kibo - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
