hmm, I just found 'shred' in GNU fileutils. Given the fact that we already have 'wipe' and 'shred' I don't see a reason to package 'srm'.
-David Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 03:40:58PM -0400 wrote: > > How does it differ from `wipe'? > > How about secure delete? It, AFAIK, is NOT packaged. The freshmeat page is > here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/securedelete/ > > It also has a file called srm with the same functionality and it also has > smem, sfill, and sswap tools (with predictabe funcationality). I could not > find a license in my quick one through. > > It's slow but I've used it and been pretty happy with it so far. > > It's pretty crazy and the readme claims it does: > > 1x overwrite with 0xff > 5x random passes > 28x overwriting with special values to make the recovery from MFM and > RLL encoded harddisks hard/impossible - see Gutmann's paper on that > which is also included. > 5x random passes > > I've considered packaging this several times and may want to get around to > it eventually. > > -- > Mako Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.debian.org/~mako/
