[Nottingham] Secure deletion of files

[Jon Masters]

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Martin Garton wrote:

| 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?

Yes. I call it cryptoapi for historical reasons - it all fed out of the
kerneli.org international crypto patches.

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

Fairy muff. Maybe if I ever get around to setting up some decent crypto
on one of my servers then I'll look at it again - I'd likely go with a
encrypted passphrase on a USB stick approach if I really cared.

Jon.
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