safe encrypting process?

[Dan Barrett]

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On Monday 02 February 2004 21:26, Cole Tuininga wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 19:36, Steve wrote:
> > > shred -u foo.txt* (shred the old plaintext file and any backup copies
> > of it)
> > > shred -u foo.txt* (to get rid of plaintext file and any backup copies)
> 
> Do note that if the file is stored on a journalling file system (such as
> ext3, jfs, reiserfs, etc) the shred command is a complete waste of time.


What if you created a ramdisk for yourself, and used it as your crypto 
sandbox?
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