From: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: secure erasure of files?
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:36:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020213003649.GA13722@zero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202121409150.18597-100000@mustard.heime.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202121409150.18597-100000@mustard.heime.net>
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:12:49PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Does anyone know if it'll be hard to enable a <em>secure</em> deletion of
<snip>
> Is this hard/possible/doable?
read:
http://wipe.sf.net/
it's the site of my file wiper. note the list of situations in which it
definetly will not work. if you really don't want plaintext laying around,
then using an encrypted fs is the only way.
a new version will be out soon, with a couple minor bug fixes. wipe is
mostly useful for wiping a drive you're selling of personal stuff.
also, don't forget about swap. if, for example, a proc reads the contents of
a file from an encrypted fs into a buffer, the buffer can be written to swap
in plaintext.
--
Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
DSA Key id 0x27371A2C
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-12 13:12 secure erasure of files? Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-12 13:41 ` Davidovac Zoran
2002-02-12 14:03 ` Padraig Brady
2002-02-12 15:55 ` Andreas Ferber
2002-02-12 19:47 ` Jan Hudec
2002-02-12 20:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-13 0:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-13 9:33 ` Helge Hafting
2002-02-13 18:27 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-13 0:36 ` Tom Vier [this message]
2002-02-13 0:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-20 15:34 ` Bill Davidsen
[not found] <200202121326.g1CDQct12086@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2002-02-12 13:33 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-17 21:19 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2002-02-19 12:54 ` Jens Schmidt
2002-02-19 14:24 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-02-21 2:56 ` Petro
2002-02-21 3:20 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-02-21 17:01 ` Holger Lubitz
2002-02-26 3:39 ` Petro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-12 21:14 Torrey Hoffman
2002-02-19 14:48 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-19 17:32 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-19 17:59 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-02-19 18:48 ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-19 20:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-02-19 23:13 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-02-19 16:19 Jesse Pollard
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