Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:36:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:36:34 -0500 Received: from mail44-s.fg.online.no ([148.122.161.44]:35498 "EHLO mail44.fg.online.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:36:32 -0500 To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kent Borg Subject: Re: Where is ext2/3 secure delete ("s") attribute? References: <200211211920.07414.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> From: Harald Arnesen Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:43:25 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200211211920.07414.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> (Marc-Christian Petersen's message of "Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:20:07 +0100") Message-ID: <87fztuczn6.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 16 Marc-Christian Petersen writes: > BUGS AND LIMITATIONS > As of Linux 2.2, the `c', 's', and `u' attribute are not honored > by the kernel filesystem code. These attributes will be implemented in > a future ext2 fs version. > > Curious to see when the future is ;) Anyway, it would be false security. Any government agency (or IBAS in Norway) may be able to reconstruct any data on your hd, or they may not. But you can't know it. So if you _really_ want to have private data on you computer, strong encryption is the only solution. And be sure that every temporary file is encrypted! -- Hilsen Harald. - 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/