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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:49:33 -0800
From:      Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
To:        "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
Message-ID:  <20031215114933.102acb38.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
In-Reply-To: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718261@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu>
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On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:31:52 -0600
"Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and was wondering if there are any other
> programs out there for secure deletion.  I know that you can use the
> -P flag with rm to overwrite files but you can't specify the
> iterations of overwriting.
> 
> What I'm looking for is something similar to (or exactly like) shred
> for Linux.  Is it out there??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben

Hi,

The only programs I've seen like what you describe are 'obliterate' and
'srm'.

  /usr/ports/sysutils/obliterate
  /usr/ports/security/srm

I'm not sure either of them does exactly what you want (specifying how
many times to overwrite the file,) but they may be worth checking out.

-Chris



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