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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:16:22 +0100
From: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] modsign: overwrite keys with zero before deleting them
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Am 23.01.2015 um 23:06 schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
>> This is for the more paranoid people, also it's
>> questionable what paranoid nowadays means.
> 
> Isn't this complete useless when modern filesystems like btrfs or
> storage devices like SSDs are used?

On SSDs it's likely useless, unfortunately. In regard to filesystems it
depends (how knows what thay all do?). But it doesn't cost anything and
might still be worth to use on conventional harddisks with several
filesystems.

I would like to have a secure-delete for FLASH based drives, but I
assume it will need some time until someone established something like
secure-trim and a userspace utility will be available.

Regards,

Alexander Holler