Shred Iterations

[Masatran, R. Deepak]

Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no
point in overwriting more than once. Is not

    sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda

sufficient?

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Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>

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