From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266984AbUBGQv4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:51:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266987AbUBGQv4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:51:56 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:60410 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266984AbUBGQvx (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:51:53 -0500 Message-ID: <402517BC.50508@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 08:52:12 -0800 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jamie Lokier CC: the grugq , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH - ext2fs privacy (i.e. secure deletion) patch References: <200402040320.i143KCaD005184@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20040207002010.GF12503@mail.shareable.org> <40243C24.8080309@namesys.com> <40243F97.3040005@hcunix.net> <40247A63.1030200@namesys.com> <4024B618.2070202@hcunix.net> <20040207104712.GA16093@mail.shareable.org> <4024C5DF.40609@hcunix.net> <20040207110912.GB16093@mail.shareable.org> <4024D019.2080402@hcunix.net> <20040207120121.GE16093@mail.shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20040207120121.GE16093@mail.shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier wrote: > > - Eraseable per-file keys may be a more secure way of destroying > data than overwriting data on a magnetic medium. > > > > I agree.