> I always felt one of the best ways of securing a machine 
> against booting
> from other media was to have a RAID array of several disks 
> for the data
> drive. When booted by some other means than the resident 
> operating system
> (assuming the RAID function is handled by the op-sys rather 
> than in disk
> controller hardware) then each drive looks to be an 
> individual drive, with
> minimal indication of the raid order.

Either that 'secret information' (RAID configuration) is on the RAID
part of the RAID system (but then how would you read it before you know
the RAID configuration?) or it is elsewehere (on an other disk, on a
non-RAID part of the RAID system) and hence non protected by the RAID
configuration. So I don't see how this would add anything to the
security.

Wouter van Ooijen

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