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Re: Email Shredding

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Hi,

On 2013-06-11, Maximus <gladiator@thearena.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to safely shred email messages? 

This is pretty less about pgp, isn't it? Though it's about comp.security
in general.

If mails are saved as files (e. g. Maildir) and you've got access to the
FS: Shred files: man shred (outta coreutils-package)

Otherwise, unknown mail-saving method, you aren't root on the
mailserver, or whatever: I don't see a chance to force a forensic secure
deletion. But if your messages were encrypted who cares about this
issue?

Furthermore you don't have control of used transport-channels. Someone
might have saved your e-mail on the transportation and you can't expect
all intermediate stations did use encryption. So an e-mail always leaves
some trails.
-- 
Yours Sincereley
Kai Burghardt

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