On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Joachim Schipper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:44:59PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote: >> Is anyone working on a port of wipe for OpenBSD: http://wipe.sourceforge.net >> >> If not, I'd be glad to work on this, provided it would be an acceptable port. > > I don't see why it would not be accepted, but I'm not sure it's too > useful either. If you just want to make recovery inconvenient, rm -P > works fine; and if you want to make it impossible, you'll probably have > to encrypt the whole disk anyway (and throw away the key). > > Joachim
Good points. Perhaps there's no real need. I'll skip it for now. Others have expressed speed concerns with wipe when compared to other tools. Brad
