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Post subject: Announcing: secure "rm" utility
 Posted: Jan 28, 2004 - 01:57 AM
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Senior Member
Joined: Sep 15, 2003
Posts: 172
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When you "rm" a file from your filesystem, the file contents are still
available on the disk. To securely wipe out the file, you need the
"secure rm" utility. It can wipe a file all to zero before unlinking it:
srm -Xz filename
or, for the really security-minded individual, it can write multiple
copies of randomized garbage over the file before unlinking it:
srm -X8 filename
will write 8 different patterns of garbage over the file.
ALPHA version is available at:
http://www.parse.com/samples/manpages/srm.html
"srm" is intended to replace "rm".
Please report any bugs you may find.
Cheers,
-RK
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