On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 13:18 -0800, Bob Smits wrote:
On January 28, 2010 02:34:42 am Lubos Lunak 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.
This doesn't make any sense whatever. If kpgp file shredding worked with opensuse 11.0 and KDE3 and ext3, why wouldn't it work for 11.2 and ext3, the same file system?
I think the point Lubos was making was that it never worked. It was a false sense of security. If for no other reason than that a file system is free to relocate blocks when you write to a file and simply mark the old blocks as unused Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org