Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:36:13 +0100 (MET)


On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 penang.island@usa.net wrote:

> Now we have Linux, swapfiles and Windoze, but the little DOD-conforming
> WIPEFILE.EXE and WIPEDISK.EXE are no longer available.

Alan just answered:

> For disks you can write AA 55 FF over each byte

Didnt Colin publish his sterilize.c here on linux-kernel recently?

Andries