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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:15:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, FreeBSD Security <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Secure Deletion 
Message-ID:  <199907131815.LAA79582@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <25695.931889331@critter.freebsd.dk>

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:Just in case anybody wants to do this "RIGHT":
:
:UFS/FFS will issue B_FREEBUF strategy calls, which a device driver
:could turn into "secure delete" operations should the drive support
:this, or multiple over-writes if it doesn't.

    ... and this actually would work.  I use B_FREEBUF in MFS to deallocate
    underlying VM when possible, though I don't bother making it secure.

:phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
:FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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