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document file saving strategy #25

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clach04 opened this issue Mar 4, 2023 · 0 comments
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document file saving strategy #25

clach04 opened this issue Mar 4, 2023 · 0 comments
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clach04 commented Mar 4, 2023 •
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https://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/ccrypt.html has a clear explanation of flag -T, --tmpfiles, which is PT's default.

-T, --tmpfiles
This option causes ccrypt to use temporary files during encryption/decryption, rather than overwriting the file contents destructively. This method leaves the original file contents lying around in unused sectors of the file system, and thus is less secure than the default behavior. However, in situations where this loss of security is not important, the --tmpfiles option can provide a measure of protection against data being corrupted due to a system crash in the middle of overwriting a file.
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