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On Mon, 03 May 2004 17:49:14 -0700 |
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Daniel Lynch <offmore@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Btw, coreutils comes with the 'shred' utility to secure delete files. So |
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> if you are really paranoid, you could symlink rm to shred or something |
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> (or create an alias in bash). |
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shred is not reliable on modern filesystems. Clever block allocation |
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algorithms, journalling and on-disk write-caches make secure deletion from |
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userspace unreliable (shred's man page lists even more examples). |
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The only reliable solution would be a filesystem specific implementation |
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inside the kernel, a new VFS call. I don't know if something like that |
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will ever be accepted into the kernel. |
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