From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 12:28:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE74A16A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:28:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cg.c.is (mail.hallo.is [193.4.194.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2429043D41 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:28:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thib@heimsnet.is) Received: from claufield.bitcode.org (bofh.bitcode.org [213.220.74.36]) by cg.c.is (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0UKSrwP13312188 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:28:53 GMT Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:28:56 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=DE=F3r=F0ur_=CDvar_Bj=F6rnsson?= To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040130202856.65e2acbb.thib@heimsnet.is> Organization: N/A X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: A question or maybe a request or something or other X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:28:56 -0000 First of all I would like to point out that I have always had a hard time finding subjects for my email's. :> I have been preparing myself to dive into GEOM/GBDE ( Maybe even a little code munching when the time comes) 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 9mm through his skull in a worst case scenario ) but still. Anyway this is just a thougt and I would like a comment about this or even I pointer if this already exists or is on the development schedule and if so I will have to get more friendly with google. -- Thordur Ivar thib@{heimsnet.is,bitcode.org} FreeBSD and Unix since 2001! http://www.bitcode.org - No sin is greater then ours -