Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday 28 of January 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > One of the things that really irked me about the move from KDE3 to KDE4
> > >  was the loss of the secure file erasure facility in Kgpg, with no
> > > replacement in sight.
> >
> > Really? I don't use Kgpg but that would be a critical feature. Have
> > you asked about that on the KDE PIM list? Would you like me to?
>
>  No need to. It would be also a non-functional feature. With current
> filesystems that employ journaling and what not it is not possible to have a
> secure file erasure feature in KGPG that would be actually secure.
>
> --
>  Lubos Lunak
>  openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer
>  l.lunak@xxxxxxx , l.lunak@xxxxxxx

I know a fair amount about the topic and the above seems overly
pessimistic to me about the success of userspace induced wiping.

Lubos, if you're knowledgeable about the topic, would you either
respond to my post on this thread from yesterday:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.suse.general/293911/

Or point me at a discussion on a kde list where they discussed it.

Greg
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