Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:09, Laurence wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:09 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Is there a secure file delete available for ext3 file systems?
Mike
Possibly encrypt the data in the first place?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6481
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Robin Laing
how about opening the file & writing zeros to it?
I don't remember the specs but there are specifications published by the
U.S. Government for what constitutes secure deletion of files from
magnetic media. This requires a certain number of rewrites over the
same sectors the file was in and I think a specific set of patterns.
I am familiar with these, but the primary objection to what he wrote
is that this is a journalled file system. IOW, the writes take place
to a separate location and then are committed.
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Mike
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