secure file deletion

[ESP]

>>>>> "JL" == Johan Lundberg <p99jlu@physto.se> writes:

    JL> I agree that "It is not the job of GnuPG to delete files".
    JL> Since I still use ext2, I use the wipe-command by Tom Vier
    JL> <thomassr@erols.com>, and I think it does the job, at least as
    JL> good as I need. 

The gnu program "shred" also works fairly well. I believe it's in the
gnu fileutils package, and is available on most Linux systems.

~ESP

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