On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:44:23PM +0200, Heinz-Juergen 'Tom' Keller wrote:
> If the time required for the process where a measure of
> quality it should be good ;-).
be warned though.. the version online doesn't correctly remove filename
entries from the filesystem... so better not store any sensitive information
in the filenames ;) (this limitation is because it relies on syscalls, never
directly interfacing with the filesystem).
it's basic process it to rename the file, and then overwrite it up to
32 times or so.. using different sources of randomness(or no randomness at
all), including /dev/urandom if available.
imho the actual data should be quite inrecoverable... but all additional data
in the filesystem is left untouched, and may survive a long time without
a single overwrite.
a more clean approach (maybe?) would be either a kernel module to do live
securedelete of all data on unlink(), or an utility to directly clean up the
filesystem...
--
so much entropy, so little time
