From owner-freebsd-security Sat May 22 7:18:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F1614BF4 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 07:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20476; Sat, 22 May 1999 16:18:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA04017; Sat, 22 May 1999 16:18:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" Cc: posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 16:01:45 +0400." Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:18:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4015.927382706@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message , "Ilmar S . Habibulin" writes: > >May be it's an freebsd-fs@ question, but i think that it belings here to. >I heard that some linux fs (maybe extfs2?) have some secure deletion flag, >which being set on inode(file or dir) cause content of this file to be >wiped before deletion, so even if somebody manage to restore file, its >content would be unusable. I think, that it is nice feature, and i would >like to see it in freebsd. What would you say? If somebody decides to implement this in the kernel, please take a look at the VOP_FREEBLKS() interface which is where/how it should be done, if at all. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message