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- the invention relates to a method of erasing, in a document data processing device, a stored information pattern on a rewritable data carrier that is accessible by a data processing facility of said device, the document data processing device having primary processes for processing document data, wherein data may be stored on said data carrier, and secondary processes for erasing stored data, through overwriting a selected storage area of said carrier by a shredding pattern, wherein the method includes running said primary and secondary processes completely or partly asynchronously, i.e. starting a primary process irrespective of the completion of any pending secondary processes.
- a first type of attack may occur through a hacker “entering” the facility via a data network.
- Such interference may be countered by relatively simple operations, such as encrypting the data before storing them on the internal hard disc, deleting the entry of the particular data file in the file administration of the carrier, or—preferably—overwriting the data.
- a more serious type of attack may occur after physical removal of such a disk from a Personal Computer, from a Digital Access Controller associated to a printing facility, or other. Deleting the file administration of the carrier will then be to no avail.
- Reformatting the carrier or over-writing by a so-called shredding pattern provides improved security, but there are techniques for detecting bit patterns that have been overwritten. A single “data shredding” run is therefore insufficient when deletion of certain data is really important.
- shredding patterns Overwriting data with a plurality of shredding runs involving multiple different bit patterns, further to be called: shredding patterns, is generally considered as an effective policy, wherein the construction of the shredding patterns should be appropriate to the intended degree of security.
- the data carrier can be based on various different writing/storing technologies, such as magnetic, magneto-optical, optical such as in a rewritable CD, and other.
- the geometrical storage organization is based on a kind of track, that may be a cylinder, a spiral, a straight line, or other.
- the storage physics is based on some kind of remanence property of the storage substrate.
- United States Published Patent Application 2002/0181134 to Bunker et al. discloses the application of user-selectable shredding patterns.
- the present inventors have recognized that this prior art technology may offer enough protection against infringers, but that the long time required by the overall shredding will keep the data processing proper, e.g. printing, stalled for an often highly needed time interval and may therefore severely degrade system performance.
- the invention is characterized in that the method further includes dynamically automatically determining overall progress of secondary processes in the device and displaying the same on a display of the device to give an indication of the internal data security situation.
- the invention also relates to an apparatus being arranged for implementing the method of the invention.
- FIG. 1 is a system block diagram pertaining to the present invention
- FIG. 2 is an operation diagram without shredding being applied
- FIG. 3 is an operation diagram with synchronous shredding
- FIG. 4 is an operation diagram with asynchronous shredding
- FIG. 5 is an operation diagram with mixed mode shredding
- FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of a mixed (a)-synchronous shredding operation
- FIG. 7 is a Table of shredding patterns
- FIGS. 8A and 8B show examples of user interface windows for controlling data erasure according to the invention.
- FIG. 9 shows an example of a user interface window for shredding process supervising.
- the term “shredding” will be used for erasure of stored data patterns on a hard disc or other re-writable storage media.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a system block diagram pertaining to the present invention.
- Elements 10 represent the relevant software processes of the controller of a device in which the invention is practised, such as a printer.
- the processes 10 make use of job-related files 12 , stored in the internal disc of the device.
- job-related files 12 may no longer be needed, and in the context of the present invention, such files should be effectively erased.
- an erase file process is issued for such a file, as indicated by reference number 14 . Erasure takes place in the form of over-writing the relevant data storage locations on the device disc, further to be called: shredding.
- shredding the original data are over-written with various bit patterns, ranging from simple sequences of all zeroes to complex patterns of zeroes and ones.
- the erase file process 14 is controlled by a set of user-defined or default parameters 16 .
- Such parameters are for instance:
- a shredding process 18 is activated (symbolized by arrow 20 ) for the specified file, and in accordance with the erasure parameters 16 .
- Actual bit patterns for the shredding process are specified in a list 22 , accessible for the process 18 .
- a print file is received via a network and stored in the system disc of the printing facility or printer.
- the file may be encrypted in the case of secure data transport, or it may be encrypted directly after receipt.
- Print files wait in a print queue until they can be processed.
- the printer When the printer is ready to process a print job, it reads the print file from disc, if necessary decrypts it and processes the print file by rasterizing it, and subsequently prints the rasterized file. In a standard situation, the file would thereupon be ready and need no longer be used at the printing facility.
- FIG. 2 illustrates a an operation diagram without shredding being applied.
- print jobs are symbolized by sequences of three print sheets, but it will be clear that in fact print jobs may comprise any number of sheets. As shown, a first print job Job 1 is processed first and is followed by a second print job Job 2 .
- FIG. 3 illustrates an operation diagram with so-called “synchronous” shredding as is known from the prior art.
- the same configuration of jobs as in FIG. 2 has been assumed.
- the shredding of Job 1 is effected immediately.
- the execution of Job 2 is effected.
- Job 2 may become due for shredding as well.
- the requirement for shredding may be determined on the basis of an intended security level that can be non-uniform over the jobs. In an exemplary embodiment, only files protected by a PIN-code would be shredded (to be explained later).
- the information shredded can be the original information, and will preferably also include any intermediate or temporary data files created in the process, data rendered out-of-date through updating, such generally as considered appropriate vis-à-vis the intended security level.
- the actual operating system will know where to find such intermediates, even if the application in question is based on running third party software.
- there may occur an unwanted delay in the processing of Job 2 due to the preference given to the immediate or synchronous shredding of Job 1 .
- FIG. 4 illustrates an operation diagram with so-called “asynchronous” shredding according to the present invention.
- the shredding of Job 1 is actually started, provided that the execution of Job 2 can proceed for some time interval without storage access. If such access becomes necessary, it can take preference over the shredding operation, as based on some preference criterium.
- This renders the shredding “asynchronous” regarding the decision “to-be-shredded”.
- the shredding is triggered automatically on the basis of certain criteria. Subsequent to the interrupting, the shredding can proceed again.
- the procedure is executed likewise regarding the shredding of Job 2 during execution of Job 3 .
- the shredding can occur in a time-distributed manner.
- the shredding occurs in a mixed manner: For example, the first few, preferable only the first) shredding run would be immediate, automatic and synchronous, i.e. before the next job is started. Further shredding runs would then be asynchronous. In this embodiment, the file can no longer be read by the system (although it would still be possible to reconstruct the stored data pattern using sophisticated analysis applied to the physical disc). Still, the most time-consuming part of shredding, the multiple overwriting, is done in the background and will not hinder the processing of the succeeding jobs.
- the shredding process 18 first removes the files-for-shredding from the file administration 12 by renaming them and moving the pointers to another storage location 24 (operation symbolized by arrow 26 ), that is dedicated to synchronous shredding.
- the data locations of the files are immediately overwritten with one or a limited number of shredding patterns.
- the shredding process 18 After finishing the synchronous scanning operation, the shredding process 18 returns a “done” message to the erase file process 14 (symbolized by arrow 32 ), such that the erase file process 14 may signal the relevant primary process 10 that it may resume operation, and moves the pointers to the (shredded) files on to a next storage location 28 (operation symbolized by arrow 30 ), that is dedicated to asynchronous shredding.
- the data locations of the files are now further overwritten in a background process, not further hampering the primary processes for the actual document data processing 10 .
- status information of the process is communicated by the shredding process 18 to a display process 36 for informing an operator of the security situation of the system, as will further be explained with reference to FIG. 9 .
- a particularly relevant application of the asynchronous shredding occurs with a shared printer facility, because such a printer may be shared among various different persons and groups. In such a case, security is all the more important.
- an advantageous organization of the present invention would be applied to printers using a mailbox concept as is featured by several printers and digital copiers, e.g. those marketed by Oce: therein, all yet unprinted files reside in the mailbox, and, moreover, printed files will remain there for some time, until they are actively (or automatically, after a predetermined time interval of, say, 24 hours) removed.
- the mailbox is implemented as non-volatile memory, such as a hard disc.
- the invention can be applied in a digital copying and a scanning environment.
- Digital copying and digital scanning are notoriously data intensive. This raises the need for effective shredding.
- the effective shredding operation of Job 1 may extend beyond the start of Job 3 , so that various jobs can be simultaneously in the course of being shredded. This will require determining some prioritizing among the various shredding runs, as will be discussed infra.
- the above shredding procedure started from the level of the individual file or bottom up. Another manner is to start on the system level: freeze the overall operations, and determine on the basis of file system operations whether deleted files should be shredded. This procedure will need an approach based on sector analysis. Usually, the operating system will sufficiently know the organization on the sector level.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a flow diagram of a mixed (a)-synchronous shredding operation.
- the operation starts, and the necessary hardware and software facilities get claimed. This operation will for example occur at power-up.
- the system determines that a particular file or storage area is no longer needed. The organization of a pertinent waiting loop has not been shown.
- the system determines whether shredding is necessary. If not, the system goes to block 52 . If shredding is necessary, the system goes to block 44 , to determine whether synchronous shredding is necessary. If not, the system goes to block 48 . If synchronous shredding is necessary, the system goes to block 46 , for executing the synchronous shredding. Thereupon, in block 48 , the asynchronous shredding is executed.
- asynchronous shredding is triggered when an interval occurs in between the normal data processing operations. Such interval can be detected through only the start thereof, or through finding that a particular interval is predicted to have at least a certain length. In this latter case the shredding operation can on this lower level have a temporary precedence over the normal data processing.
- the system may interrogate the standard data processing as to its storage access requirements. Such background processing is, however, a basic mechanism of the particular operating system, and the precise implementation is not part of the present invention.
- a first solution ⁇ herefore is a first-come-first-take basis, so that the files are treated according to the sequence in which they were found shreddable, usually apart from the synchronous part of the shredding operation.
- a second approach is through letting the ranking number of the shredding pattern (cf. FIG. 7 ) determine the priority.
- Still another approach is through assigning a priority level to all asynchronous shredding operations that pertain to a particular file. In a printer application, print files would take preference over logging files.
- a brief delay could be introduced immediately after the finishing of a document data processing job, before a shredding process is allowed to start. Otherwise, if a new document data processing job starts, although it has priority over shredding processes, if a shredding process has claimed the disc, it takes some time for the priority job to access its required storage locations on the disc.
- Shredding and more in particular the further shredding runs after a synchronous initial shredding run, may also be effected off-line, e.g., just before shut-down of the system or at night or during quiet hours as a batch process.
- the storage sections used in print processing may in this case be used again after the initial shredding run, and only their use will be logged. Then, in the batch shredding at night, all files that have been logged as being used in the print processes during the day will be erased properly by shredding, leaving a “clean” system at the end.
- the level of effectiveness of data shredding depends on the number and content of the shredding patterns used. Every additional shredding run makes retrieval of the original bit pattern on the storage medium more difficult, the more so when the shredding patterns used differ from run to run. It is therefore within the scope of the present invention to offer a settable security level to the users.
- the printer driver window 70 shown on the user's PC contains a security level setter in the form of a slide switch, a series of radio buttons or any other appropriate means.
- the printer driver window has a series of tabs and one of them ( 69 ), here designated “Erase Data”, wherein a security level can be selected by clicking the appropriate button, as shown in FIG. 8 a . Every security level relates to a predefined combination of shredding procedures and bit patterns as further explained below in relation to FIG. 7 .
- the list of options in FIG. 8A includes:
- tick box 71 for defining the particular print job as a security job.
- a forced dialogue will appear (not shown) for the user to enter a PIN code, that he will be asked for when it comes to printing the job.
- Other possible forms of security jobs involve other security tokens that are suitable for identifying or otherwise authorizing a user, such as a fingerprint, iris scan or code card. Defining a print job as a security job automatically enforces erasure by shredding of the print data in the printer after finishing the job.
- the selection of the security level is reserved for a super user (also known as “key operator”) or the system administrator, who may enforce a security level for all users, using a selection window similar to the one shown in FIG. 8 a.
- FIG. 7 illustrates a Table of shredding patterns as proposed by Gutmann in his article mentioned in the introduction, which can be used in the present invention.
- the left hand column shows respective data passes or shredding runs.
- the second column shows the various shredding patterns. Certain thereof are random as generated by a random pattern generator not shown. Others are produced by a sequence of more elementary patterns, produced by appropriately repeating bit patterns as shown in the column in a hexadecimal “shorthand” notation (“0x” signalling hexadecimal notation).
- the seventh row would produce a repetition of the bit pattern 0x92, 0x49, 0x24, or “10010010 01001001 00100100”. As shown, up to 35 shredding runs can be needed.
- An optimum case is attained through executing 35 successive runs with various different patterns as shown.
- the number of erasure patterns can be selected between 0 and 35.
- the scheme is used as shown. When fewer runs are applied, a predetermined selection is made.
- FIG. 9 shows an information window 100 that can be projected on the local device display upon actuation of a key on the operating panel (not shown). It shows the actual security-related situation of the internal hard disc of the device, as entries for “data in use” (excluding system files not related to document data), “data in erasure process”, and free (“clean”) disc space in bytes.
- a “fuel gauge” type display item 110 is added to give a quick impression of the situation.
- only entries for “data in use” including data scheduled for shredding, but not yet completely erased, are shown. It would of course also be possible to show the information specified in numbers of files. With this indication on the device display, a user can instantly see if the data that should be removed are indeed gone.
- the necessary information to make the display can easily be delivered by the operating system resident in the device controller and can be refreshed regularly, to give a dynamic situation display.
- the display window can also be shown on the workstation of the system administrator.
- the present invention may be used advantageously for scanning and copying in a very similar way.
- a user In scanning, on a dedicated scanner device or on a multifunctional device, a user must first enter his name or other identification code, and may then scan documents. The scan data are then stored on the system disc of the device in connection with the id of the user. The user may then return to his workstation, contact the scanner and fetch his scan file. According to the present invention, the scan data are then removed from the disc and the used disc sectors are erased by shredding.
- a scanner scans the original document, stores the scan data on the internal disc of the copier, whereafter the printer prints the copies from the disc.
- Shredding of the used disc space may be done automatically or in reaction to a setting made by the operator while setting the copy job parameters.
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According to an embodiment, a method is presented of erasing, in a document data processing device, a stored information pattern on a rewritable data carrier that is accessible by a data processing facility of said device, the document data processing device having primary processes for processing document data, wherein data may be stored on the data carrier, and secondary processes for erasing stored data, through overwriting a selected storage area of the carrier by a shredding pattern. According to the method, the primary and secondary processes are run asynchronously, i.e. the secondary processes are run in background, in order not to hinder the primary processes, and the progress of the erasing process is dynamically displayed for the operator to give an indication of an internal data security situation.
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- This application is a Continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 11/014,980 filed on Dec. 20, 2004, and for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. §120; and this application claims priority of Application No. 03078991.1 filed in Europe on Dec. 19, 2003 under 35 U.S.C. § 119; the entire contents of all are hereby incorporated by reference.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The invention relates to a method of erasing, in a document data processing device, a stored information pattern on a rewritable data carrier that is accessible by a data processing facility of said device, the document data processing device having primary processes for processing document data, wherein data may be stored on said data carrier, and secondary processes for erasing stored data, through overwriting a selected storage area of said carrier by a shredding pattern, wherein the method includes running said primary and secondary processes completely or partly asynchronously, i.e. starting a primary process irrespective of the completion of any pending secondary processes.
- 2. Discussion of the Background Art
- Background art has recognized that magnetic hard disks and other more or less similar storage facilities are increasingly vulnerable to reading of confidential data that is stored thereon. A first type of attack may occur through a hacker “entering” the facility via a data network. Such interference may be countered by relatively simple operations, such as encrypting the data before storing them on the internal hard disc, deleting the entry of the particular data file in the file administration of the carrier, or—preferably—overwriting the data.
- A more serious type of attack may occur after physical removal of such a disk from a Personal Computer, from a Digital Access Controller associated to a printing facility, or other. Deleting the file administration of the carrier will then be to no avail.
- Reformatting the carrier or over-writing by a so-called shredding pattern provides improved security, but there are techniques for detecting bit patterns that have been overwritten. A single “data shredding” run is therefore insufficient when deletion of certain data is really important.
- Overwriting data with a plurality of shredding runs involving multiple different bit patterns, further to be called: shredding patterns, is generally considered as an effective policy, wherein the construction of the shredding patterns should be appropriate to the intended degree of security.
- The data carrier can be based on various different writing/storing technologies, such as magnetic, magneto-optical, optical such as in a rewritable CD, and other. Usually, the geometrical storage organization is based on a kind of track, that may be a cylinder, a spiral, a straight line, or other. The storage physics is based on some kind of remanence property of the storage substrate.
- In particular, United States Published Patent Application 2002/0181134 to Bunker et al. discloses the application of user-selectable shredding patterns. The present inventors have recognized that this prior art technology may offer enough protection against infringers, but that the long time required by the overall shredding will keep the data processing proper, e.g. printing, stalled for an often highly needed time interval and may therefore severely degrade system performance.
- Furthermore, an overall discussion of shredding operations and other related items is given in P. Gutmann, “Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory”, Sixth USENIX Security Symposium Proceedings, San José, Calif. USA, Jul. 22-25, 1996, downloadable at http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/gutmann.html.
- In consequence, amongst other things, it is an object of the present invention to give an operator an indication of the internal data security situation.
- Now therefore, according to one of its aspects, the invention is characterized in that the method further includes dynamically automatically determining overall progress of secondary processes in the device and displaying the same on a display of the device to give an indication of the internal data security situation.
- With this indication on the device display, a user can instantly see if the data that should be removed are indeed gone. The progress can also be shown on the workstation of the system administrator.
- The invention also relates to an apparatus being arranged for implementing the method of the invention.
- Further advantageous aspects of the invention are recited in dependent claims.
- These and further features, aspects and advantages of the invention will be discussed more in detail hereinafter with reference to the disclosure of preferred embodiments of the invention, and in particular with reference to the appended Figures that illustrate:
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FIG. 1 is a system block diagram pertaining to the present invention; -
FIG. 2 is an operation diagram without shredding being applied; -
FIG. 3 is an operation diagram with synchronous shredding; -
FIG. 4 is an operation diagram with asynchronous shredding; -
FIG. 5 is an operation diagram with mixed mode shredding; -
FIG. 6 is a flow diagram of a mixed (a)-synchronous shredding operation; -
FIG. 7 is a Table of shredding patterns; -
FIGS. 8A and 8B show examples of user interface windows for controlling data erasure according to the invention; -
FIG. 9 shows an example of a user interface window for shredding process supervising. - In the following, the term “shredding” will be used for erasure of stored data patterns on a hard disc or other re-writable storage media.
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FIG. 1 illustrates a system block diagram pertaining to the present invention. The Figure is generally symbolically organized, so that various respective blocks will represent operations rather than identifiable hardware modules.Elements 10 represent the relevant software processes of the controller of a device in which the invention is practised, such as a printer. Theprocesses 10 make use of job-related files 12, stored in the internal disc of the device. In the course of theprocesses 10, some of the job-related files may no longer be needed, and in the context of the present invention, such files should be effectively erased. For that purpose, an erase file process is issued for such a file, as indicated byreference number 14. Erasure takes place in the form of over-writing the relevant data storage locations on the device disc, further to be called: shredding. During the shredding, the original data are over-written with various bit patterns, ranging from simple sequences of all zeroes to complex patterns of zeroes and ones. - The
erase file process 14 is controlled by a set of user-defined ordefault parameters 16. Such parameters are for instance: - synchronous/asynchronous/combined shredding
- number and selection of shredding patterns
- shredding priority.
- The terms used here will be explained in the description below.
- In reaction to the issuing of an
erase file process 14, ashredding process 18 is activated (symbolized by arrow 20) for the specified file, and in accordance with theerasure parameters 16. Actual bit patterns for the shredding process are specified in alist 22, accessible for theprocess 18. - Before further describing the actual operation of the shredding process, we will now first explain several different shredding techniques as used herein, with reference to
FIGS. 2, 3 , 4 and 5. This example is directed to a printing application, but may, mutatis mutandis, also be applied to other document processing operations such as scanning and copying. - In printing, a print file is received via a network and stored in the system disc of the printing facility or printer. The file may be encrypted in the case of secure data transport, or it may be encrypted directly after receipt. Print files wait in a print queue until they can be processed. When the printer is ready to process a print job, it reads the print file from disc, if necessary decrypts it and processes the print file by rasterizing it, and subsequently prints the rasterized file. In a standard situation, the file would thereupon be ready and need no longer be used at the printing facility.
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FIG. 2 illustrates a an operation diagram without shredding being applied. - As an example, print jobs are symbolized by sequences of three print sheets, but it will be clear that in fact print jobs may comprise any number of sheets. As shown, a first print job Job1 is processed first and is followed by a second print job Job2.
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FIG. 3 illustrates an operation diagram with so-called “synchronous” shredding as is known from the prior art. For simplicity, the same configuration of jobs as inFIG. 2 has been assumed. Now, at the end of executing Job1, the associated file is considered out-of-use. Thereupon, the shredding of Job1 is effected immediately. Subsequently, the execution of Job2 is effected. Of course, Job2 may become due for shredding as well. The requirement for shredding may be determined on the basis of an intended security level that can be non-uniform over the jobs. In an exemplary embodiment, only files protected by a PIN-code would be shredded (to be explained later). The information shredded can be the original information, and will preferably also include any intermediate or temporary data files created in the process, data rendered out-of-date through updating, such generally as considered appropriate vis-à-vis the intended security level. Generally, the actual operating system will know where to find such intermediates, even if the application in question is based on running third party software. Evidently, there may occur an unwanted delay in the processing of Job2, due to the preference given to the immediate or synchronous shredding of Job1. - By contrast,
FIG. 4 illustrates an operation diagram with so-called “asynchronous” shredding according to the present invention. As soon as Job1 is finished and the associated files are up for shredding, the shredding of Job1 is actually started, provided that the execution of Job2 can proceed for some time interval without storage access. If such access becomes necessary, it can take preference over the shredding operation, as based on some preference criterium. This renders the shredding “asynchronous” regarding the decision “to-be-shredded”. The shredding is triggered automatically on the basis of certain criteria. Subsequent to the interrupting, the shredding can proceed again. The procedure is executed likewise regarding the shredding of Job2 during execution of Job3. Thus, the shredding can occur in a time-distributed manner. - In a related and particularly advantageous embodiment of the present invention, shown in
FIG. 5 , the shredding occurs in a mixed manner: For example, the first few, preferable only the first) shredding run would be immediate, automatic and synchronous, i.e. before the next job is started. Further shredding runs would then be asynchronous. In this embodiment, the file can no longer be read by the system (although it would still be possible to reconstruct the stored data pattern using sophisticated analysis applied to the physical disc). Still, the most time-consuming part of shredding, the multiple overwriting, is done in the background and will not hinder the processing of the succeeding jobs. - Now, returning to
FIG. 1 , and in connection to the above-described mixed shredding mode, theshredding process 18 first removes the files-for-shredding from thefile administration 12 by renaming them and moving the pointers to another storage location 24 (operation symbolized by arrow 26), that is dedicated to synchronous shredding. The data locations of the files are immediately overwritten with one or a limited number of shredding patterns. - After finishing the synchronous scanning operation, the
shredding process 18 returns a “done” message to the erase file process 14 (symbolized by arrow 32), such that the erasefile process 14 may signal the relevantprimary process 10 that it may resume operation, and moves the pointers to the (shredded) files on to a next storage location 28 (operation symbolized by arrow 30), that is dedicated to asynchronous shredding. The data locations of the files are now further overwritten in a background process, not further hampering the primary processes for the actualdocument data processing 10. - During the shredding process, status information of the process is communicated by the
shredding process 18 to adisplay process 36 for informing an operator of the security situation of the system, as will further be explained with reference toFIG. 9 . - As an alternative to the mixed mode shredding explained above, also fully asynchronous scanning may be effected for less important information. This mode can easily be done with the same composition of processes and structures as shown in
FIG. 1 , with the exception that files for shredding are removed directly to thestorage location 28 dedicated to asynchronous shredding. This is symbolized by hatchedarrow 34 inFIG. 1 . - A particularly relevant application of the asynchronous shredding occurs with a shared printer facility, because such a printer may be shared among various different persons and groups. In such a case, security is all the more important. In particular, an advantageous organization of the present invention would be applied to printers using a mailbox concept as is featured by several printers and digital copiers, e.g. those marketed by Oce: therein, all yet unprinted files reside in the mailbox, and, moreover, printed files will remain there for some time, until they are actively (or automatically, after a predetermined time interval of, say, 24 hours) removed. The mailbox is implemented as non-volatile memory, such as a hard disc. Therefore, if a user deletes a file from the mailbox, it is not only deleted from the file administration, but also shred. Also in this case, it is advisable to execute the first shredding run in a synchronous manner, i.e. immediately after the delete command. Of course, for optimal security all job files should be stored in encrypted form and only be decrypted when the data are needed for printing, while decrypted data are kept in volatile memory only.
- Further, the invention can be applied in a digital copying and a scanning environment. Digital copying and digital scanning are notoriously data intensive. This raises the need for effective shredding.
- Note that in a situation like
FIG. 4 or 5, the effective shredding operation of Job1 may extend beyond the start of Job3, so that various jobs can be simultaneously in the course of being shredded. This will require determining some prioritizing among the various shredding runs, as will be discussed infra. - The above shredding procedure started from the level of the individual file or bottom up. Another manner is to start on the system level: freeze the overall operations, and determine on the basis of file system operations whether deleted files should be shredded. This procedure will need an approach based on sector analysis. Usually, the operating system will sufficiently know the organization on the sector level.
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FIG. 6 illustrates a flow diagram of a mixed (a)-synchronous shredding operation. In block 40, the operation starts, and the necessary hardware and software facilities get claimed. This operation will for example occur at power-up. Inblock 42, the system determines that a particular file or storage area is no longer needed. The organization of a pertinent waiting loop has not been shown. Inblock 43, the system determines whether shredding is necessary. If not, the system goes to block 52. If shredding is necessary, the system goes to block 44, to determine whether synchronous shredding is necessary. If not, the system goes to block 48. If synchronous shredding is necessary, the system goes to block 46, for executing the synchronous shredding. Thereupon, inblock 48, the asynchronous shredding is executed. - Starting of the asynchronous shredding is triggered when an interval occurs in between the normal data processing operations. Such interval can be detected through only the start thereof, or through finding that a particular interval is predicted to have at least a certain length. In this latter case the shredding operation can on this lower level have a temporary precedence over the normal data processing. After a certain amount of shredding, the system may interrogate the standard data processing as to its storage access requirements. Such background processing is, however, a basic mechanism of the particular operating system, and the precise implementation is not part of the present invention.
- If shredding operations are in progress on more than one file, some priority organization is maintained. A first solution □herefore is a first-come-first-take basis, so that the files are treated according to the sequence in which they were found shreddable, usually apart from the synchronous part of the shredding operation. A second approach is through letting the ranking number of the shredding pattern (cf.
FIG. 7 ) determine the priority. Still another approach is through assigning a priority level to all asynchronous shredding operations that pertain to a particular file. In a printer application, print files would take preference over logging files. - Now, as long as the shredding must proceed, the loop of
blocks 48 and 50 (“ready?”) revolves. If shredding is ready, the system proceeds to block 52, wherein the storage area in question is released for new system usage. Thereupon, the system reverts to block 42. - For simplicity, the interaction between the shredding and the other data processing operations has not been given in detail, but various priority-controlled operations may be executed. Such details are considered well within the knowledge of the skilled person.
- Furthermore, a brief delay could be introduced immediately after the finishing of a document data processing job, before a shredding process is allowed to start. Otherwise, if a new document data processing job starts, although it has priority over shredding processes, if a shredding process has claimed the disc, it takes some time for the priority job to access its required storage locations on the disc.
- Shredding, and more in particular the further shredding runs after a synchronous initial shredding run, may also be effected off-line, e.g., just before shut-down of the system or at night or during quiet hours as a batch process. In fact, the storage sections used in print processing may in this case be used again after the initial shredding run, and only their use will be logged. Then, in the batch shredding at night, all files that have been logged as being used in the print processes during the day will be erased properly by shredding, leaving a “clean” system at the end.
- The level of effectiveness of data shredding depends on the number and content of the shredding patterns used. Every additional shredding run makes retrieval of the original bit pattern on the storage medium more difficult, the more so when the shredding patterns used differ from run to run. It is therefore within the scope of the present invention to offer a settable security level to the users.
- In a first embodiment, the
printer driver window 70 shown on the user's PC contains a security level setter in the form of a slide switch, a series of radio buttons or any other appropriate means. The printer driver window has a series of tabs and one of them (69), here designated “Erase Data”, wherein a security level can be selected by clicking the appropriate button, as shown inFIG. 8 a. Every security level relates to a predefined combination of shredding procedures and bit patterns as further explained below in relation toFIG. 7 . - The list of options in
FIG. 8A includes: - “Highest”, in which the maximum number of shredding patterns (refer to
FIG. 7 ) is used, in a synchronous manner - “High”, in which an initial synchronous shredding run is followed by an asynchronous process using a selection of, e.g. 15, shredding patterns
- “Medium”, in which only an asynchronous shredding process is applied, with a limited number of shredding patterns
- “Custom”, in which a user may select his own choice of number and selections of shredding runs, including applying them as synchronous or asynchronous runs.
- Of course, other options would be within the scope of the invention.
- In the basic screen of the printer driver, shown in
FIG. 8B , there is atick box 71 for defining the particular print job as a security job. When a user does so, a forced dialogue will appear (not shown) for the user to enter a PIN code, that he will be asked for when it comes to printing the job. Other possible forms of security jobs involve other security tokens that are suitable for identifying or otherwise authorizing a user, such as a fingerprint, iris scan or code card. Defining a print job as a security job automatically enforces erasure by shredding of the print data in the printer after finishing the job. - In an alternative embodiment, the selection of the security level is reserved for a super user (also known as “key operator”) or the system administrator, who may enforce a security level for all users, using a selection window similar to the one shown in
FIG. 8 a. -
FIG. 7 illustrates a Table of shredding patterns as proposed by Gutmann in his article mentioned in the introduction, which can be used in the present invention. The left hand column shows respective data passes or shredding runs. The second column shows the various shredding patterns. Certain thereof are random as generated by a random pattern generator not shown. Others are produced by a sequence of more elementary patterns, produced by appropriately repeating bit patterns as shown in the column in a hexadecimal “shorthand” notation (“0x” signalling hexadecimal notation). For example, the seventh row would produce a repetition of the bit pattern 0x92, 0x49, 0x24, or “10010010 01001001 00100100”. As shown, up to 35 shredding runs can be needed. An optimum case is attained through executing 35 successive runs with various different patterns as shown. To attain a balance between possible performance degradation and the needed security, the number of erasure patterns can be selected between 0 and 35. At 35 runs, the scheme is used as shown. When fewer runs are applied, a predetermined selection is made. -
FIG. 9 shows aninformation window 100 that can be projected on the local device display upon actuation of a key on the operating panel (not shown). It shows the actual security-related situation of the internal hard disc of the device, as entries for “data in use” (excluding system files not related to document data), “data in erasure process”, and free (“clean”) disc space in bytes. A “fuel gauge”type display item 110 is added to give a quick impression of the situation. In an alternative embodiment, only entries for “data in use” including data scheduled for shredding, but not yet completely erased, are shown. It would of course also be possible to show the information specified in numbers of files. With this indication on the device display, a user can instantly see if the data that should be removed are indeed gone. The necessary information to make the display can easily be delivered by the operating system resident in the device controller and can be refreshed regularly, to give a dynamic situation display. The display window can also be shown on the workstation of the system administrator. - The present invention may be used advantageously for scanning and copying in a very similar way. In scanning, on a dedicated scanner device or on a multifunctional device, a user must first enter his name or other identification code, and may then scan documents. The scan data are then stored on the system disc of the device in connection with the id of the user. The user may then return to his workstation, contact the scanner and fetch his scan file. According to the present invention, the scan data are then removed from the disc and the used disc sectors are erased by shredding.
- In a copy operation, a scanner scans the original document, stores the scan data on the internal disc of the copier, whereafter the printer prints the copies from the disc. Shredding of the used disc space may be done automatically or in reaction to a setting made by the operator while setting the copy job parameters.
- In all cases mentioned, a shredding procedure effected wholly or at least partly as a background process according to the present invention, will only slightly disturb new print, copy or scan jobs.
- Now, the present invention has hereabove been disclosed with reference to preferred embodiments thereof. Persons skilled in the art will recognize that numerous modifications and changes may be made thereto without exceeding the scope of the appended claims. In consequence, the embodiments should be considered as being illustrative, and no restriction should be construed from those embodiments, other than as have been recited in the claims.
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1. A method of erasing, in a document data processing device, a stored information pattern on a rewritable data carrier that is accessible by a data processing facility of said device,
the document data processing device having
primary processes for processing document data, wherein data is stored on said data carrier, and
secondary processes for erasing stored data, through overwriting a selected storage area of said carrier with a shredding pattern,
wherein the method includes running said primary and secondary processes completely or partly asynchronously, and
the method further includes dynamically automatically determining overall progress of secondary processes in the device and displaying the same on a display of the device to give an indication of the internal data security situation.
2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said selected storage area includes storage of temporary, intermediate, and other data used by an actual operating system during a particular primary process.
3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said overwriting is terminated as based on a predetermined sufficient overwriting activity on a storage area of predetermined sufficient size.
4. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in the step of displaying the progress of the secondary processes, data that have been stored by the primary processes, including data scheduled for shredding but not yet completely erased, are displayed.
5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein in the step of displaying the progress of the secondary processes, “data in use”, “data in erasure process”, and free (“clean”) disc space are distinguishably displayed.
6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the step of displaying the progress of the secondary processes, specifies the progress in the form of a “fuel gauge”.
7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the step of displaying the progress of the secondary processes, specifies the data in numbers of bytes.
8. The method as claimed in any one of claim 1 , 4 or 5, wherein the step of displaying the progress of the secondary processes, specifies the data in numbers of files.
9. The method as claimed in any one of claim 1 , 4 or 5, wherein said displaying of the progress of secondary processes in the device takes place on a local device display.
10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said displaying of the progress of secondary processes in the device takes place on a workstation display.
11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein said data processing device comprises a printer, a scanner or a digital copier.
12. A document processing device comprising:
a data processing facility;
a local display; and
a rewritable data carrier accessible by said data processing facility,
said data processing facility running
primary processes for processing document data, wherein data may be stored on said data carrier, and
secondary processes for erasing data stored in said data carrier, through overwriting a selected storage area of said carrier by a shredding pattern,
wherein the data processing facility is adapted to run said primary and secondary processes completely or partly asynchronously, and
the data processing facility includes:
means for monitoring the overall progress of secondary processes in the device, and
means for dynamically displaying said progress on the local display, to give an indication of an internal data security situation.
13. The device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said rewritable data carrier is a hard disc.
14. The device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said means for displaying said progress to an operator is a local display.
15. The device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein said device is a printer, a copier or a scanner.
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