Description of problem: Please consider to apply this path that fixes overwriting of file names: https://github.com/berke/wipe/pull/2 Additional info: The patch is against upstream version 0.22, which is missing in Fedora. If you do not have the time to update wipe, I can do it as provenpackager. I will also fix the URL as reported in a separated bug and perform some minor SPEC cleanups. Here is a copy of a more detailed bug report from Debians bugtracker. The bug does not yet have a bug number: Package: wipe Version: 0.22-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream patch The wipe man-page states: "Normally, wipe tries to cover file names by renaming them" However, this does not work for me for different versions of wipe. Using fls from the sleuthkit, its easy to see the name of the wiped file in the filesystem on the ext{2,3,4} filesystems. On vfat, btrfs and xfs the filename can be retrieved easily, too. My testcase was: $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=256 of=wipeimagefile-ext2.bin; $ losetup /dev/loop2 wipeimagefile-ext2.bin; $ mkfs.ext2 /dev/loop2; $ mkdir /mnt/wipetest; $ mount /dev/loop2 /mnt/wipetest; $ echo "very secret data that should be deleted after use" > /mnt/wipetest/secretfile.txt; $ wipe -fc /mnt/wipetest/secretfile.txt; $ umount /mnt/wipetest; $ losetup -d /dev/loop2; $ rmdir /mnt/wipetest; $ fls wipeimagefile-ext2.bin wipeimagefile-ext2.bin d/d 11: lost+found r/- * 0: secretfile.txt r/- * 0: 4hv06IB9SyTgVt d/d 2561: $OrphanFiles In contrast to this behaviour, shred from coreutils-8.5 succeeds in hiding the filenames. shred was used with the parameters -fu for this comparison. I believe that this is from the different usage of sync() in wipe and fsync(dir_fd, dirname) in shred. Note that this isn't a limitation of the filesystem or the operating system, as shred succeeds in hiding the original filename. Used for the test were the following versions of wipe: wipe-0.21-9 from debian squeeze, wipe-0.22-1 from debian wheezy and sid, wipe-0.21-5.fc15 from fedora 15, wipe-0.21-8.fc19 from fedora 19 on ext2, ext3, ext4, vfat, xfs and btrfs. I have written a patch that fixes the mentioned issue. It is heavily based on the source of shred from coreutils by Colin Plumb. While shred is now licensed under GPLv3, the parts of my patch that were derived from shred could easily be changed to a version of shred (git cad884a..) that was licensed under GPLv2. For the same testcase as written in my first mail, the fls output is: d/d 11: lost+found r/- * 0: 0 r/- * 0: 00 d/d 2561: $OrphanFiles Note that this patch only keeps the filename from being readable in the filesystem structure. For journaling fileystems, such as ext{3,4}, the filename is still retained in the journal.
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