Secure delete with python

[John Lenton]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:40:07AM +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
> 
> > has ever been in.  The solution is to write only encrypted data to the
> > drive, and don't store the key on the drive.
> 
> As a special case, avoid that the OS writes the key to disk while swapping.

or encrypt the swapfile. In fact, encrypt the disk, then partition it;
this is easily done with the device mapper in linux 2.6...

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