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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:55:07 -0600
From:      "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu>
To:        "Chris Pressey" <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
Message-ID:  <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718262@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu>

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Chris -

It doesn't look like they do quite what I'd like.  Here's the man page
for shred (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1).  Shred is used
in a shell script called Autoclave
(http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/) to securely wipe a
hard drive before getting rid of it.  I've attached the "autoclave.sh"
script (as long as attachments are allowed, ask me for it if you don't
get the attachment).

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Pressey [mailto:cpressey@catseye.mine.nu]=20
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 1:50 PM
To: Pratt, Benjamin E.
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:31:52 -0600
"Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu> wrote:

> Hello -
>=20
> I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and was wondering if there are any other
> programs out there for secure deletion.  I know that you can use the
> -P flag with rm to overwrite files but you can't specify the
> iterations of overwriting.
>=20
> What I'm looking for is something similar to (or exactly like) shred
> for Linux.  Is it out there??
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> Ben

Hi,

The only programs I've seen like what you describe are 'obliterate' and
'srm'.

  /usr/ports/sysutils/obliterate
  /usr/ports/security/srm

I'm not sure either of them does exactly what you want (specifying how
many times to overwrite the file,) but they may be worth checking out.

-Chris

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