Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 20:44:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Avalon Books <avalon@advicom.net> To: Eric Lakin <elakin@ricochet.net> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure Deletion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905202040240.8677-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> In-Reply-To: <19990520182142.A1242@ptah.ricochet.net>
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> > It uses a combination of randomly-generated and pattern-specific > > overwrites of a file (or group of files) in-place, in order to make > > recovery extremely difficult--even with advanced equipment (like > > echo-cancellation analysis systems). A standard file-deletion is issued > > after its done mangling the file(s) in question. It works ok, I guess, as > > betas go. > > This sounds similar to "rm -P" in a stock FreeBSD system (3.1, atleast) Similar, but certainly more sophisticated than the -P option for rm. Still, my program is just a beta, and I'll admit that it certainly isn't ready for any kind of real-world environment--yet. I'm going to add swap-space and free-space deletion options as soon as I figure out a way to do those things gracefully. It should make for a nice, relaxing programming project. --R. Pelletier Sys Admin, House Galiagante We are a Micro$oft-free site To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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