From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 25 15:16:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 485D11583B for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:16:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA12532; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA04512; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:15:56 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04514; Fri, 25 Jun 99 15:15:54 PDT Message-Id: <3773FF9A.6775458D@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:15:54 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Black Cc: "Crist J. Clark" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Secure Deletion References: <199906250212.WAA07810@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19990625204513.4139.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Black wrote: > > If items 3 and 4 are too extreme for your case, replace them > with: > > 3. newfs the disks and fill them with 0x55 bytes > 4. repeat step 3, using 0xAA then repeat step 3 Oh good grief! If you're going to use the obliterate program I just mailed out, be sure to edit lines 82 and 90 and change the byte values to 0xaa and 0x55, because 0xa and 0x5 aren't going to cut it. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message