Date: 21 May 1999 18:49:51 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> Cc: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, wes@softweyr.com, imp@harmony.village.org, ilmar@ints.ru, posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion Message-ID: <xzpzp2ypdu8.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Patrick Bihan-Faou"'s message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 10:57:52 -0400" References: <19990520145800.B5E31150AF@hub.freebsd.org>
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"Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com> writes: > I agree with that last statement. An implementation on FreeBSD probably does > not need to write multiple times to the disk. Wouldn't work, anyway, unless you disable write caching (not just on the disk, but in the disk driver as well - no soft updates!). Otherwise, all passes but the last will be ignored, unless you wipe a really big file (too big to fit in cache). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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