Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??

[Chris Pressey]

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

> Hello -
> 
> 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.
> 
> What I'm looking for is something similar to (or exactly like) shred
> for Linux.  Is it out there??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 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