Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
Pratt, Benjamin E.
bepratt at stcloudstate.edu
Mon Dec 15 11:55:11 PST 2003
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 at catseye.mine.nu]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 1:50 PM
To: Pratt, Benjamin E.
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
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
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