Re: shred plugin
- From: Ralf ranfyy <ranfyy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:39:27 +0200
2013/8/25 Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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 do remember reading that shredding on a journaling FS is not that
> very efficient (I never understood why, though),
You can read up a bit on how revoering works on ext4 here:
http://openfacts2.berlios.de/wikien/index.php/BerliosProject:Ext4magic
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