Re: Secure deletion

Tom Vier (nester@sekurity.org)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 15:12:15 -0400 (EDT)

> Does ext2 support secure deletion (freed blocks are overwritten, possibly
> multiple times) rather than just released for reuse? Are there patches available to do this?

if it does, i doubt it does anything more than just zero the
blocks. i'm writing "wipe" based on on usenix article i read. i'm
probably gonna release the latest version either today or tomarrow. i
can send it to you, if you want, or just drop you a line when it's
ready. that last version i released is at

http://www.erols.com/thomassr/later/

download that or wait for the better version 8) almost forgot, if
anyone wants to read the article it's based on it's at:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/secure_del.html

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