Re: [PLUG] secure file deletion with journaling filesystems

["Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Brian Mohr said:
> With NTFS you can use "cipher" a microsoft tool, if you trust it.

"Cipher.exe is a command-line tool (included with Windows 2000) that you
can use to manage encrypted data by using the Encrypting File System
(EFS). As of June 2001, Microsoft has developed an improved version of the
Cipher.exe tool that provides the ability to permanently overwrite (or
"wipe") all of the deleted data on a hard disk. This feature improves
security by ensuring that even an attacker who gained complete physical
control of a Windows 2000 computer would be unable to recover
previously-deleted data."

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q298009&;

Sounds like that doesn't work on plain vanilla NTFS. But I could be wrong,
as I haven't tried it.

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