On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:33:46AM -0000, Langa F. Kentane wrote: > How would I go about shredding a file with perl
You should probably take a look at http://rr.sans.org/unix/sec_files.php which sums up the need for shredding files securely. Notice the article talks about scanning the hard drive at the magnetic level; if you're not worried about theft of the hardware, but rather undeletion of files, such as the unrm and lazarus tools mentioned, you can probably get away with zeroing out the file, as another poster mentioned. I.e. writing all NULs (or whatever) to the file. You should evaluate the threats the data will face, and how important it is, to determine how best to secure it. By far the best suggestions have been not to write the file to disk at all. Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
