g_file_secure_delete ??
Luca Ferretti <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.vfs.general |
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| Message-ID | <1195058207.5538.3.camel@redrum> |
Alex, will gio/gvfs able to provide a secure file delete feature, such as the one by srm(1) from http://freeworld.thc.org/ ? I know that secure data deletion means perform a lot of writes with special values on data (and you need an random generator), but honestly I don't know how exactly it's implemented (do you have to know the target physical FS to write on?). So I don't know if gio can implement it "directly" or you just have to add an hook in gio-standalone (writing different implementations for each supported FS/vFS), but I think it could be a really good addition for final users. Cheers, Luca