Wipe function?

Thu Aug 28 04:51:02 2003

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cat /dev/urrandom on linux this way you wont end up emptying the system =
random pool !
but just overwiring with zeros is not a good idea better look at =
something better if you are concerned about the deleted files lying on =
the disk

Aditya Lalit Deshmukh
Enterprise Security Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-admin@gnupg.org]On
Behalf Of Joseph Bruni
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:12 AM
To: thomas@northernsecurity.net
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Wipe function?

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.

-Joe

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On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 03:21PM, Thomas Sj=F6gren =
<thomas@northernsecurity.net> wrote:

>Is there plans to add a "wipe" function to GPG?
>For example:
>gpg -sew -r Bob file
>  sign and encrypt for user Bob, when done wipe the original file
>
>Traditional wiping with shred or wipe shouldn't be trusted  on =
journaling=20
>filesystem, so maybe filling the original file with garbage, something=20
>like /dev/urandom > file, might be an option?
>
>/Thomas
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