Re: secure erasure of files?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:45:19 -0500

Tom Vier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:12:49PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Does anyone know if it'll be hard to enable a <em>secure</em> deletion of
> <snip>
> > Is this hard/possible/doable?
>
> read:
>
> http://wipe.sf.net/

The program /usr/bin/shred has existing in GNU fileutils, and thus most
Linux systems, for years and years...

Jeff

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