Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute? | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 22 Nov 2002 22:31:06 +0100 |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> writes:
> Forget the shred program. It's less useful than having the > filesystem simply zero the blocks, because it's slow and you > can't be sure to hit the OS-visible blocks. Aside from encryption, > the useful options are: > > 1. plain old rm (protect from users) > 2. filesystem clears the blocks (protect from root/kernel)
It won't protect you from the root. If you need protection from root, be a root on your own machine. And be sure your unencrypted data, keys etc. never make it to/through any hostile system. -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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