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Re: security and journaling

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Subject: Re: security and journaling
From: Scott McDermott <mcdermot@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 15:10:13 -0400
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Chris Wedgwood on Mon 30/09 11:56 -0700:
> That said, if you are *really* paranoid deleting and over-writing the
> data doesn't suffice unless done carefully and eve nthen there are
> caveats.

Just use shred(1)...it's from fileutils so it should be on any GNU box.
You also have to worry about VM pages being written to swap unencrypted.
Encrypted loopback is probably better for this application.


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