Re: secure delete?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Jason Holt wrote:

>Secure deletion would be a very nice addition to the security features r4 has 
>to offer.  After our discussions on the difficulty of getting things like 
>shred to work with journalling filesystems, I wrote up a demo that I showed at 
>a UUG meeting.  It's here:
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>http://www.lunkwill.org/tmp/delete/
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>I get different results every time I run it(!), but usually the last run
>(where we create 6 files) produces lots of text on the "disk" even after
>shredding.  I suspect that reiserfs would behave the same way.
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>So some way to ask the fs not to leave extra copies of blocks laying around,
>or to securely delete the copies that it makes would be quite useful.
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Well, I am not opposed to it, I am just not putting it at the top of my 
funding priorities.;-)

Right now we want to complete our darpa contract feature list and get 
everything debugged....  even if we have already spent all of darpa's 
money....

-- 
Hans