Re: [PATCH v2] modsign: use shred to overwrite the private key before deleting it

[Alexander Holler]

Am 24.01.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Alexander Holler:

> It uses shred, in the hope it will somedays learn how to shred stuff on
> FLASH based devices securely too, once that has become possible.

BTW: This is a good example where technology failed to keep the needs of 
users in mind.

It should be relatively easy to make that possible: Using secure trim 
which erases blocks instead of just marking them as free, it should be 
possible without much effort for file systems to implement a secure 
unlink. An obvious name would be sunlink(2). Or does such already exist? 
I've seen secure trim already exists for some devices, but not sunlink().

Regards,

Alexander Holler
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