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key management

Posted Oct 17, 2011 14:19 UTC (Mon) by jpnp (subscriber, #63341)
In reply to: What about shred(1)? by raven667
Parent article: Securely deleting files from ext4 filesystems

So now you've exchanged a media wiping problem for a key management problem, hardly a panacea.

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key management

Posted Oct 17, 2011 21:50 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

Maybe not a panacea but a far more understandable and tractable problem.

The alternative is storing everything in the clear and then making bad assumptions about how the underlying technology works so that you can try and fail to wipe the data when required because you don't really control or understand the underlying storage.