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Does this not handle unsafe overwrites?Does this not handle unsafe overwrites?Posted Dec 7, 2006 23:22 UTC (Thu) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)Parent article: Secure deletion and trash bin support
It sounds like this patch doesn't handle the "secure" files in the case where their contents may be modified. In that case, the old contents could end up being left around on disk somewhere (e.g. if I run "echo > secure_file.txt"). Am I missing something, or is the patch missing something?
David
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Does this not handle unsafe overwrites? Posted Dec 8, 2006 1:15 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Yeah, I have a feeling this is yet *another* problem with this proposal.
I guess I should go and read the actual patch and moan on l-k if these
Does this not handle unsafe overwrites? Posted Dec 8, 2006 19:03 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] Right. What we want is secure de-allocation, not secure delete. That looks more like attaching deallocated blocks to a .trash file than linking unreferenced files to a .trash directory.
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