Re: shred plugin
- From: Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:28:27 +0200
Dear Tom,
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 7:15 AM, <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:45:59 +0200
> "0.akowalski" <0.akowalski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> You also have my plus one ;-)
>
> I hope we all realise that this will really be just a more-sophisticated
> approach to security-by-obscurity. AFAIK there's no bullet-proof and
> widely-available approach to forcing multiple, nearly-simultaneous
> overwrites, or dealing with OS page-files.
>
I've now played around with the new Shred plugin and applying it on a
file yielded the following:
Failed to remove
/tmp/1001-emelfm2-svn-unpack.tmp~1/bcrypt-master/Makefile - Success
Is this expected?
Furthermore, I peeked at the source code (I couldn't yet find docs for
the plugin) and it seems to me that this is a home-grown
implementation for a shredding algorithm. Is there a good reason to
not just re-use the thoroughly tested shred command that comes with
most Linux distros (and allow for some plug-in config options, like
nature of rewrite---zeros or pseudo-randoms---and nr of rewrites)?
Regards,
Liviu
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