tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/feedback/1764-shredding-filesGPGTools: Discussion 2020-11-05T18:52:27Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/386561592016-01-09T17:09:52Z2016-01-09T17:09:52ZShredding files<div><p>Hey Marilou,</p>
<p>welcome to the GPGTools community support platform.</p>
<p>GPG Suite does not offer any secure file shredding option. File
shredding is not related to OpenPGP in any way. There are a few
tools out there which do this. Your favorite search engine will
help you out on this. We occasionally get this feature request but
have no immediate plans to add this functionality.</p>
<p>Hope you can find a good solution.</p>
<p>All the best,<br>
steve</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/386561592016-01-12T11:25:40Z2016-01-12T11:25:40ZShredding files<div><p>We already have a feature request to add file shredding
capabilities to GPG Suite and I've added your comments and vote to
it. The number of votes is one factor that helps us to determine
what feature to add next.</p>
<p>Unfortunately there's no workaround for this problem at the time
being. We're very sorry for that. This discussion will be updated
however, when the requested feature is available.</p>
<p>Have a nice day,<br>
steve</p></div>Stevetag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/386561592016-01-12T13:34:26Z2016-01-12T13:34:26ZShredding files<div><p>Hi Steve,</p>
<p>Thank you for that. I recently read that file shredding does not
work on<br>
SSD drive because of the way the drive handles the writing process
(there<br>
is no guarantee that the writing of multiple passes of zeros
happens right<br>
on the file that you want to shred - it can happen at random places
on the<br>
disk, making it pointless). Apparently that is why Apple removed
the<br>
"secure empty trash" function from their latest OS. Is that
true?</p></div>Mtag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/386561592016-01-13T09:38:27Z2016-01-13T09:38:27ZShredding files<div><p>Yes, that is correct.</p>
<p>The answer would be to use full disk encryption or use an
encrypted disk image.</p>
<p>Which also reminds me, we should close this feature request as
won'tfix. Apple did the right thing by removing the "secure empty
trash" option.</p></div>Steve