Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 02:35:33 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Rayson Ho <raysonlogin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "secure" file flag? Message-ID: <20031119023533.GB90922@saboteur.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <20031119003133.18473.qmail@web11404.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031119003133.18473.qmail@web11404.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:31:32PM -0800, Rayson Ho wrote: > I am wondering if it is useful to have a "secure" file flag?? ... > e.g. when deleting a "secure" file, the OS will overwrite the file with > random data. I've got patches somewhere for zeroing out memory mappings in this way, but they are incomplete. :-( BMS
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