secure file deletion

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, ESP wrote:

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

Some time ago there was a discussion about shred and similar
software on Bugtraq.  IIRC, the conclusion was that they all don;t
work reliable,  Someone should check the archives.

  Werner
  

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