encrypting

[Kristofer Coward]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:45:47AM -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > > See the shred(1) manual page...
> >
> > hmm, looks like it was an interesting command, but from the man page, it 
> > says it doesn't work effectively with journaled filesystems.
> 
> Unfortunately true.  It does about the best that can be done without active
> cooperation from the filesystem, but it does require a certain amount of
> passive cooperation, and the fancier modern filesystems don't provide it.

OTOH, there are also fancier new filesystem options in 2.6 that are so
actively cooperative that shred isn't even necessary anymore. Actually,
2.6 has a _lot_ of security/crypto features that were kept ouf of
earlier (mainstream) kernels for fear of political problems.

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