Jim Garlick wrote: > I think the main thing shred needs is the more modern 3-4 pass overwrite > algorithms. Supposedly the full Gutmann algorithm is really only effective > on MFM drives, and 3-4 passes is all you need on modern drives. As Toni > points out, it would be extremely advantageous to have this installed on > every machine that runs coreutils.
Note since coreutils-7.1 shred has defaulted to 3 random passes: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=83ae1bdd > I could prepare a patch to coreutils to make various overwrite patterns > including Gutmann selectable via shred option and a NNSA NAPS-14.1-C > compliant pattern the default (random, random, 0x00, verify). This would > make my employer happy. Would such as patch be considered, Jim M.? The verify step you mention, would address the TODO in the commit above. cheers, Pádraig.
