Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch

Hans Reiser
2004-02-07T05:40:40Z

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.
>