Wipe function?

[Thomas Sjögren]

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:42:24PM -0600, Joseph Bruni wrote:
> It's probably not a good idea to burn up all your entropy like that. Fill=
ing the file full of zeroes would work just as well.

I guess that depends on the level paranoia. Imho overwriting with a charact=
er, its
complement, then a random character should be minimum [1].

[1] http://www.dss.mil/isec/chapter8.htm, 8-306.=20

/Thomas
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