Re: shred plugin
- From: <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:26:56 +1000
On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:15:05 +0200
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have you ever considered implementing a 'shred' plugin? Currently one
> may delete files in emelFM2, but we all know that usually the file is
> unlinked, while the underlying data stays on the harddisk. Shredding
> tries to improve security by overwriting the underlying data with 0s
> or some pseudo-random pattern.
>
> It would be nice to have this in emelFM2. For example, such
> functionality is present in Rodent ( http://xffm.foo-projects.org/ ).
Considered, but not enough interest to construct one.
BTW, the encrypt plugin overwrites the original version of the file processed -
not with E5 or 0 or whatever, but with random text from other files (supposedly
to make it harder to automatically interrogate and discover any 'faint trace'
of the original content).
Regards
Tom
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