A question or maybe a request or something or other

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20040130202856.65e2acbb.thib at heimsnet.is>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=DE=F3r=F0ur_=CDv
ar_Bj=F6rnsson?= writes:

>I was reading phk@ gbde paper ( wich he presented at bsdcon03 )
>and I had an idea, I think that alot of other people have had the
>same idea but I have not seen it discussed anywhere. Now to the
>meat of it, I was wondering if there would be an option for setting
>a passphrase whom would initiate a self descrut sequence ( destroying
>all data on a particular disk when entered or even just a portion
>of the data on that disk ). This would be a fisable option in a
>real world situation if an attacker is putting pressure on somebody
>to give up the passphrase ( Well the victim might end up with a 9
>mm through his skull in a worst case scenario ) but still.

This is planned, but not yet implemented for lack of time.


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