Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:55:07 -0600 From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@wind-river.com> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Secure Deletion Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990520095507.00840010@india.wind-river.com>
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Let's keep standard BSD semantics here, please! As for "secure" deletion... Why doesn't someone just write a simple user-space program to do that. True, it wouldn't handle calls to unlink(), but one would think that someone could modify the library really quick (provided no one does a system call directly, but uses the libc interface instead). I think this would be much better for everyone involved. Some problems with my idea... Static-linked executables would need to be recompiled Library would need to be modified on "secure" systems If all you want is a way to force a file to go away from the command line, just rewrite rm. Joel Maslak UPDATE -- Generate Web Traffic http://www.permission-marketing.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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