[Nottingham] Secure deletion of files

Martin Garton martin at stupids.org
Fri May 27 08:48:06 BST 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 00:39 +0100, Jon Masters wrote:

> I wouldn't use dm-crypt yet. It was written as a quick hack for some
> college or University project by someone and I've not seen enough real
> world use to trust it with serious data. cryptoapi is much more well
> known and has been around a fair bit longer at this point.

AFAIK dm-crypt _uses_ cryptoapi. Did you mean cryptoloop?

dm-crypt performed better than cryptoloop in my tests which is one
reason I use it. Besides, I like to live dangerously. ;-)

-- 
Martin.





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