Re: Adding of peter gutmann's paper concept to /bin/rm

On 2003-03-26 19:47:35 -0500, Jolan Luff wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:07:32PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

Yep, I found Marks patch on my hard disk, it adds the -s option:

  -s      Securely overwrite regular files before deleting them.  Files are
          overwritten 35 times; rounds 1-4 use /dev/arandom, rounds 5-31
          use Guttman's deterministic patterns, and rounds 32-35 use
          /dev/arandom.  This option implements the method described by Pe-
          ter Gutmann in his whitepaper, Secure Deletion of Data from Mag-
          netic and Solid-State Memory, presented at the 6th USENIX Securi-
          ty Symposium.

Still applies to current.

        Morten

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