Re: Mutt & tmp files
Florian Bantner <f.bantner@axon-e.de> writes:
> Second and more important: When a file is created on disk it
> occupies physikal space on the disk. When its deleted again, the
> space is in no way 'cleaned', but stays on the disk until it is
> accidentaly overwritten.
With 'cleaned' you mean that the file doesn't get overwritten
automatically, right? (Hmm, you could hack Mutt so that it overwrites
files first, with shred for example...)
> Everyone with access to the disk can therefore (in the worst case)
> read any mail which was ever written by any user of that system -
> either he/she encrypted it or not.
Hmm, have you considered ramdisks?
moritz
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