Just me with another question ... Is there any particular reason(s) the examples in the loop-aes README use "dd" to overwrite the device with encrypted zeros (in order to mask how much cyphertext is subsequently written there), instead of (say) using shred eg.. >~ ln -s /dev/fd0 tmp.$$ >~ shred -n 1 -v tmp.$$ rm -f tmp.$$ - as can be seen in some of the older online guides to loop-aes. Why do I care? Because dd doesn't appear to have usable exit values (it's 1 no matter what happens?), so you can't really test in a script if it's finished properly. On the other hand, shred has a non-zero exit value if something went wrong. __________________________________ Discover Yahoo! Find restaurants, movies, travel and more fun for the weekend. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/weekend.html - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
