Questions

[JanuszA.Urbanowicz]

Johannes Graumann wrote/napisa=B3[a]:
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> New to the world of encryption, I have a couple of questions concerning=
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> Gnupg and the like:
> 1. Is it correct, that there is no disk wiping tool included into gnupg?=
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> What do people use instead?

It is extremally hard to write disk wiping tool that works on Unix/Linux
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> 2. Has anyone ever written some program that filters commands incoming in=
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> a machine by ssh and only accepts them if they are encrypted with a certa=
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> key? Would a system like that confer security assuming I keep public and=
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> private key to myself?

I'm misunderstanding something or such functionality is already in the SSH
protocol - check ssh documentation on authorization using RSA and D-H keys.

> 3. Since Gnupg does not come with the capability of creating encrypted fi=
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> systems (correct?): what are people using (on Linux)?

Encrypted loop filesystems from the International Kernel patch.

Alex
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