On 2010-11-06, Vaclav Mocek <little.owl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It would be usefull to overwrite some parts of memory (keys etc.), > before the computer is switched off. So, my question is: Is there > already implemented and used some kind of protection? > There was a patch for Linux to scramble memory just before halt. However it has not been pushed to developers nor incoroporated into the Linux. Unfortunatelly, I cannot find it now. It's few years old code. I rember it had solved more problems than just this one and that the patch touched halt(8) utility and kernel. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel