Unix security additions

[Barry Margolin]

In article <6783 at awdprime.UUCP> Tony Sanders <sanders at cactus.org> writes:
>What if the backup/restore utilities on the "secure" system used an
>encryption scheme before writting to tape (like dump|crypt|dd of=/dev/mt,

If the people you're trying to protect against are the operators, this
isn't much of a solution, since they have to know the password in order to
do the backups and restores.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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