[45511] in Cypherpunks
Re: Secured RM ? (source)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Holiday)
Sun Dec 17 05:23:12 1995
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 05:15:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Ben Holiday <ncognito@gate.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512170428.PAA22362@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Jiri Baum wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
> There's no automatic rm that will also delete all backups of the file.
> (You are keeping backups, aren't you?)
>
In this particular case what im concerned about is a temporary cleartext
copy of a permanently encrypted document. The cleartext only exists for
about 1-4 seconds, and then is deleted, so backups arent really a
problem..