From owner-freebsd-security Thu Nov 18 13:54:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE01D15183; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:54:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id NAA21085; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:53:18 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id NAA03409; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:53:17 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA22432; Thu, 18 Nov 99 13:53:09 PST Message-Id: <38347544.3D50A536@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:53:08 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Barrett Richardson Cc: David G Andersen , trouble@netquick.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure filesystem wiping References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Barrett Richardson wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, David G Andersen wrote: > > > This thread was discussed in *agonizing* length about 6 months or a year > > ago. You might want to check the archive, at: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/search/ > > > > Lots of good solutions and advice, and lots of bad, were discussed. But > > it's all there for you to peruse... > > > > The thread was "Secure deletion". There is a handy prog in Message-ID > <378A58EA.ACF1412F@softweyr.com> Or ftp://ftp.xmission.com/pub/users/s/softweyr/pub/obliterate-0.3.tgz if you prefer. I swear I'm going to wrap a port-kit around this and commit it one of these days. Honest! Actually, this afternoon is looking good for that. Comments, jeers, applause, and especially money to wes@softweyr.com. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message