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. Filling the file full of zeroes would work just as well. Peter Gutmann wrote a fascinating paper on this subject. It turns out that zeroes aren't enough. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html David