[plug] encyption

Russell russellsteicke at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 11:48:47 WST 2006


On 11/6/06, Patrick Coleman <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that it doesn't actually delete the cleartext file.txt, so you'll
> need to make sure you do that.

If you really want to hide whatever was in the file, deleting it is
not enough.  'wipe' will overwrite its contents securely and rename it
before really deleting it so that not even the name is left behind.
But make sure you read and understand the section in the wipe man page
about journalling filesystems.


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