On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:10:02AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused disc
space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows. I'm looking
for the same thing for FreeBSD.
Have you looked into the `shred` utility (gshred on
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:59:44 -0800
Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gutmann method might be excessive but any software that uses it shows
a seriousness about security.
Gutmann himself regards the continued use of his method as Voodoo
Gutmann's paper was about wiping the kind of disks
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:59:44 -0800
Jason C. Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gutmann method might be excessive but any software that uses it shows
a seriousness about security.
Gutmann himself regards the continued use of his method as Voodoo
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused disc
space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows. I'm looking
for the same thing for FreeBSD.
Thanks,
Jason C. Wells
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Hi there,
Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements.
Cheers,
Marc
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:10:02AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote:
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused
disc space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows.
Marc Silver wrote:
Hi there,
Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements.
Or always 'rm -P' :-)
Peter
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Hi there,
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:22:33AM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote:
Or always 'rm -P' :-)
Nice... never knew about this.
That said, this won't satisfy the Gutmann requirement as far as I
understand it and overwriting a file three times is not considered a
true secure wipe of data. This
man dd
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Jason C. Wells wrote:
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused disc
space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows. I'm looking for
the same thing for FreeBSD.
Thanks,
Jason C. Wells
Hi there,
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:43:46AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
how? even single write is enough
Not according to the paper that Gutmann wrote:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/
In short, he says that if you know how the data
That said, this won't satisfy the Gutmann requirement as far as I
understand it and overwriting a file three times is not considered a
true secure wipe of data. This data would still be theoretically
recoverable.
how? even single write is enough
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Marc Silver wrote:
Obviously it all comes down to how important the data is that you're
removing, but a single write is not enough if the data needs to be
disposed of 'securely'.
Yep. The magnetic media retains a trace of everything that was recorded
on it. If you have recorded over an old
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Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of
unused
Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of
unused disc
space?
split -b 200m /dev/random randomdata ; sync rm randomdata*
Run as many times as your paranoia factor requires on your file system.
Gutman suggests in his own writings that overwriting with random data
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