Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:37:34 -0500 (EST) From: Barrett Richardson <barrett@phoenix.aye.net> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, TrouBle <trouble@netquick.net>, David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure filesystem wiping Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9911182331400.18537-100000@phoenix.aye.net> In-Reply-To: <38347633.22E76DE0@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters wrote: > > I've tested obliterate on some rather large files (250 MB) and it exhausts > the system entropy pool very quickly, even on a system with a busy network. > Does anyone make a hardware entropy device? ;^) > How about pseudo-random data? Aren't the passes with random data just a little extra icing? Also, will my system choke if I mmap a 250 MB file on a system with 32 MB of ram? That was why I was thinking of obliterating files in strips. - Barrett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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