Thanks for the reply Ben, On Tue, 6 May 2003, Ben Slusky wrote: > 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. ;-) My thought was: mostly everyone can steal a hard drive and grep drives for passwords/intereting data - virtually nobody can take an electron microscope to the drive. > Or just use encrypted swap. Yep, very true... > > 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. I thought C2 mandated object wiping before re-use, but I could be wrong... Cheers, Sam - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
