From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Crypting files with Ada
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:55:45 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-09-17T14:55:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnaoegjk.897.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D874106.8020809@nbi.dk
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:49:42 +0200, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
>
> This would not necessarily be enough. According to a paper
> by Peter Gutmann, you ought to overwrite the file 35 times
> with different bit patterns. You can find an implementation
> of this here:
>
> http://www.linux-kurser.dk/secure_harddisk_eraser.html
This one overwrite the entire harddisk.
> (it's written in C)
I'll make a port if I can find the source :-)
Preben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-17 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 16:09 Crypting files with Ada Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 16:47 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-12 22:03 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-09-13 8:34 ` Preben Randhol
2002-09-13 20:42 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-09-17 14:49 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-09-17 14:55 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2002-09-17 17:44 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2002-09-17 18:26 ` Ted Dennison
2002-09-17 19:13 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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2002-09-18 7:29 Grein, Christoph
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