If you're worried about tempfiles you might want to store your files in an encrypted filesystem (or e.g. an encrypted folder on Windows XP)
> Filling with 0's then deleting is not reliable on journaled > filesystems.. the files should be encrypted in the first place. A while > back somebody did some changes to make sure that keys don't show up if > logLevel is less than debug (or minor?).. > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:23:15AM +0100, Marco A. Calamari wrote: >> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:02 +0000, Toad wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:36:13PM +0000, Ben Golding wrote: >> > > Doesn't storing decrypted data on disk break the "deniability" >> property >> > > of Freenet, which is important for freedom of speech? >> > >> > I'd have to check what the current behaviour is... I think we use >> > temporary file buckets and don't encrypt them, in fproxy, at >> present... >> > We should fix this, obviously. >> >> Another check on next minor release IMHO useful would be >> delete all file stored in cleartext BOTH when shutting >> down the node and when starting it. >> I mean all file in store/temp and the dir store/temp >> itself (to clean temo filenames) >> Another useful addition would be an config option to >> clean all clearinfo places: client-download (both >> content and dir), that can be used by others if the node is an >> http gateway (has the fproxy port public), logfile >> that from time to time can contain keynames in weird >> messages or other internal information as stacktraces. >> Doing this with a simple wiping algoritm (fill with >> zero before deletion) would be another good thing. >> >> JM2C. Marco >> >> > > >> > > (after all, you can disable writing the cache to disk, even in IE!) >> > > >> > > Ben Golding >> > > >> > > ----- Original message ----- >> > > From: "Toad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > > To: support@freenetproject.org >> > > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:53:51 +0000 >> > > Subject: Re: [freenet-support] temp files from gateway >> > > >> > > The encrypted files are stored in the store. >> > > The decrypted files may be stored in the temp directory as well. >> Which >> > > is often in the store, subdir temp. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Support mailing list >> > Support@freenetproject.org >> > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support >> > Unsubscribe at >> http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >> > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -- >> >> "Oggi e' il domani di cui ci dovevamo preoccupare ieri." > > > >> _______________________________________________ >> Support mailing list >> Support@freenetproject.org >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support >> Unsubscribe at >> http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support >> Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support@freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at > http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
