From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?
Date: 22 Nov 2002 22:31:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n0o1gulh.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200211220122.gAM1MQY305783@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
"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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-23 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-22 1:22 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-22 1:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22 2:41 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-22 4:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22 5:55 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-22 7:12 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-11-22 13:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-22 13:27 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-11-22 2:06 ` Mike Dresser
2002-11-22 14:13 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-11-22 21:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
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2002-11-24 6:40 Albert D. Cahalan
2002-11-21 18:20 Marc-Christian Petersen
2002-11-21 22:43 ` Harald Arnesen
2002-11-21 17:52 Kent Borg
2002-11-21 18:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-21 18:39 ` Kent Borg
2002-11-21 19:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-21 19:05 ` Kent Borg
2002-11-21 19:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-21 20:28 ` Alan Cox
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