From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: the grugq <grugq@hcunix.net>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 21:40:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40247A63.1030200@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40243F97.3040005@hcunix.net>
There is an extensive literature on how you can recover deleted files
from media that has been erased a dozen times, but breaking encryption
is harder. It is more secure to not put the data on disk unencrypted at
all is my point.....
Hans
the grugq wrote:
> Well, I think secure deletion should be an option for everyone. Using
> encryption is a data hiding technique, you prevent people for
> detemining what sort of data is being stored there. Now, admittedly I
> dont know at what level the reiser4 encryption appears, but I would
> think its safer to have complete erasure when a file deleted
> regardless of how well protected its contents were.
>
> just a thought.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-07 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 16:30 PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch the grugq
2004-02-03 22:20 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 0:33 ` the grugq
2004-02-04 0:43 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 0:48 ` the grugq
2004-02-04 0:55 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 0:58 ` the grugq
2004-02-04 1:10 ` Mike Fedyk
2004-02-04 6:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-02-04 13:08 ` the grugq
2004-02-04 17:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-04 17:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-04 23:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-04 23:51 ` the grugq
2004-02-05 1:48 ` the grugq
2004-02-05 4:38 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-07 3:30 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-05 3:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-02-06 0:00 ` the grugq
2004-02-12 22:59 ` Robert White
2004-02-13 3:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-13 21:30 ` Robert White
2004-02-18 3:48 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-02-18 9:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-17 12:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-04 3:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-02-07 0:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-07 1:15 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-07 1:29 ` the grugq
2004-02-07 5:40 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2004-02-07 9:55 ` the grugq
2004-02-07 10:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-07 11:02 ` the grugq
2004-02-07 11:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-07 11:46 ` the grugq
2004-02-07 12:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-07 16:52 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-07 17:22 ` Pavel Machek
2004-02-08 0:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-07 16:50 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-07 16:44 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-09 12:07 ` Edward Shishkin
2004-02-10 7:18 ` Hans Reiser
2004-02-07 2:17 ` Jamie Lokier
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2004-02-07 9:55 Albert Cahalan
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