wiping files

[David Shaw]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 07:10:05PM -0400, Hasnain Mujtaba wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a file wipe utility in GPG, similar to the PGP wipe option? I
> am writing decrypted data to a linux file and would like to wipe that
> file.  

No.  This is not possible to do portably, and GnuPG needs to run on
dozens of platforms.

That said, see:

   http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
   http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/data-hiding-forensics.html

It's not nearly as easy it might seem to wipe a file.

David