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There is an extensive literature on how you can recover deleted files from media that has been erased a dozen times, but breaking encryption is harder. It is more secure to not put the data on disk unencrypted at all is my point..... Hans the grugq wrote: > Well, I think secure deletion should be an option for everyone. Using > encryption is a data hiding technique, you prevent people for > detemining what sort of data is being stored there. Now, admittedly I > dont know at what level the reiser4 encryption appears, but I would > think its safer to have complete erasure when a file deleted > regardless of how well protected its contents were. >> just a thought.> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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