On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 12:31, Patrick Hagemann wrote:
> You can delete the message, compress the folder an then (if you are > using WinXP Prof.) call cipher.exe from the command prompt using the > /w option which will wipe unused space on the entire volume. But this > will take some time. Didn't know about cipher.exe being able of doing this. If you install the Windows 2000 Security Rollup Package 1 (SRP1) (see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q298009&;) you get a new version of cipher.exe which is capable of wiping under Windows 2000 as well. However, although I've searched the web I haven't found enough documentation to tell if cipher.exe only wipes empty clusters on the disk or if it also wipes the small parts of a cluster which does not contain data (i.e. if you have a file of 1000 bytes and a cluster size of 1024 bytes, does it wipe the remaining 24 bytes of such clusters?). I know this is on the edge of what's on topic, but since it started out as a question on how to secure information in mails handled by TB! I think it's a relevant issue. If the moderators does not agree then make this a dead horse. -- Regards, Marcus Ohlstr�m Using The Bat! v1.60q on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 PGP Public Key at http://www.canit.se/~marcus/pgp.asc ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
