Re: shred plugin
- From: Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:30:47 +0200
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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)?
>
One more thing: When launching Shred on a file, the dialogue asks
whether you want to _delete_ the file. I think both the message and
button should use _shred_.
Liviu
> Regards,
> Liviu
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