Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:59:40 +0400 (MSD) From: "Ilmar S. Habibulin" <ilmar@ints.ru> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905200957550.18001-100000@ws-ilmar.ints.ru> In-Reply-To: <199905192041.OAA01463@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > Does it doe the DoD recommended patter of deletion? That is overwrite > the blocks with sever different series of bit patterns to make it > impossible to recover using the usual techniques, or is it just a > bzero of the blocks in question? The former is secure deletion, the > latter is too insecure for most people that want this feature... Bzero can be changed to some other function, is suppose that this is not a question. The question is if this thing is needed by comunity. > P.S. I do think a port of even the latter would be a good thing. So you vote for it. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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