Re: Self-destruct password

[Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:08:01AM -0700, Chris Smith wrote:
> > From:	Emil [SMTP:emil@la.mine.nu]
> > Has anyone though of adding a second password to the encryption
> > mechanism that will wipe clean the whole partition/file ?
> I love the idea.  Just seems that it would be a little hard to test/debug if
> you have to wipe the system to test it.

User Mode Linux[1] comes to mind here...

No problem testing it there. Even more fun is possible there ;-)

e.g. people use it to develop file systems or playing VM games.

Emil: Just go ahead implementing this.

PS: Quoting repaired.

Regards

Ingo Oeser

[1] http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
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