Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute?

From: Krzysztof Halasa (khc@pm.waw.pl)
Date: Fri Nov 22 2002 - 16:31:06 EST

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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.

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Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
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