[minion-cvs] Be a bit more reasonable about shredding files

[nickm@seul.org (Nick Mathewson)]

Update of /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/etc
In directory moria.seul.org:/tmp/cvs-serv2459/etc

Modified Files:
	mixminiond.conf 
Log Message:
Be a bit more reasonable about shredding files

Index: mixminiond.conf
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RCS file: /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/etc/mixminiond.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3
--- mixminiond.conf	21 Nov 2002 18:23:41 -0000	1.2
+++ mixminiond.conf	2 Dec 2002 20:18:09 -0000	1.3
@@ -10,10 +10,13 @@
 [Host]
 
 # Uncomment this line to define a 'secure delete' command to overwrite
-#   deleted.  files.  Note that this isn't as secure as you think:
-#   most of these commands do not safely overwrite metadata.  Watch
-#   for a more secure operating mode in a future version.
-#ShredCommand: /usr/bin/shred -uz 
+#   deleted files.  (This isn't as secure as you think: see the 
+#   comment in Common.py).
+#
+# This is the default command: we just zero out files and unlink them.
+# This choice protects against root, but not against an attacker with
+# deep hardware wizardry and resources.
+#ShredCommand: /usr/bin/shred -uz -n0
 
 # Uncomment this line if your system uses a different entropy generator.
 #EntropySource: /dev/urandom