On 08/03/07, john eayrs <jee@???> wrote:
> I have a few queries on Securely deleting files and preparing a system so
> that you can have sensitive files which are easy to delete.
>
> One of the reasons I like fat32 or fat16 is that it is very easy to
> overwrite files before deletion. I can overwrite file names so that file
> names cannot be traced. Ie My sensitive documents on a technical
> publication on a comercial sensitive subject is removed when the job
> producing a technical manual for a company is finished.
>
> On a linux file system there appears to a system log of the documentation
> and the possibility of files being moved around on the hard disk in order
> to have more efficient use of hard disk space.
>
> On some word processors backup files are automatically created of data which
> can make it difficult to guarentee complete removal of commercially
> sensitive data when a job is finished.
>
> If I created an encrypted drive using "TrueCrypt" with a FAT32 filesystem
> for sensitive information would this mean that no system log of the filename
> is kept and when I overwrite the file with random bytes no trace of the data
> is left. It is possible to request that a word processor creates its
> temporary files in the "TrueCrypt" encrypted drive.
>
> Will the above work on a linux system or is it "pie in the sky".
>
> John Eayrs
>
http://encryptionhowto.sourceforge.net/Encryption-HOWTO-4.html
This shows you how to do the equivalent of TrueCrypt, but the Linux way
