Wiping free space on encrypted filesystem.

["Ryan M. McConahy" <jfanonymous@yahoo.com>]

Right now, I'm creating a large encrypted filesystem (2gig, maybe I'll
downsize to 1). I am doing "dd if=/dev/urandom". When this is done, I'll
probably use 3DES-ede. Would it help/hurt to, on the mounted fs, do a "dd
if=/dev/urandom of=/cryptdisk/freespacewipefile"?

Thanks,

Ryan

BTW: Does anyone know if 2.2 crypto can work under 2.4?


_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

-
Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/