Emergency destruction of LUKS partition

aragonx at dcsnow.com aragonx at dcsnow.com
Mon Sep 30 20:38:41 UTC 2013



> There are
> services that provide disappearing web
sites.  You could have your
> encryption program make
part of your key from such a web site.  Every
> time
you decrypt your volume for use, it removes the old site/key and
>
creates a new site/key (which you would have to memorize). 
The site
> would disappear after 24 hours automatically or 2
failed login
> attempts.  So, if you wait long enough
or give them a bad password,
> your data is gone because you no
longer actually have the key.  Well,
> there isn't a
key anymore so...

I said that wrong.  You never know what
the key phrase is on the web site.  It is auto-generated.  The
program picks up that part automatically and generates a new key each time
you decrypt.  

---
Will Y.

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