Florian Bantner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199 "In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people." - Linus Torvalds.