if you ever need to wipe a harddrive, don’t expect to do it quicky. i used dban v1.0.7 to wipe a 100gb laptop hard-drive and it took a while… 53 hours or so. of course if the disk was encrypted i just deleted the key.. it’d take about a whole 0.02 seconds to completely nullify the encrypted contents of the disk. here’s some other free disk utilities.
now that i’m back on ubuntu as my primary desktop, it’s about time i re-gen a pgp/gpg key and start using it in emails. i already do 90% of my point 2 point connections encrypted ( gotta love ssh and ssl ) it’s about time i give myself the opportunity to digitally sign things or encrypt my email. not cause i have something to hide, but because it’s fun playing with cryptography!
i setup my gpg keys on the command line, but seahorse looks like a good gui passwords and encryption keys manager. (that’s seahorses’s ubuntu applications menu name btw) i even published my public key on the mit gpg public keyserver. now to find someone to email. heh.
links
- configure pgp for evolution email client [ gui/cli install/config guide ]
- using openpgp with evolution
- ximian evolution guide : encryption
- gnome : evolution homepage
- gnome : seahorse homepage [ seriously, how much simpler can encryption get? ]