Security and harddisk crubbing in Linux

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:46:19AM +1000, Travis Ecclestone wrote:
> I  am about  to set  up a  Linux machine  with Mandrake  linux  on a
> Celeron 400 system (picked up for  nothing but am a big AMD fan) and
> am  wondering  about  security  and  hard  disk  scrubbing  programs
> available for Linux.

> I have some scrubbing tools for Windows file systems (East Tec
> Eraser 2000) but want to know about similar programs for Linux.  Do
> they exist?  what is the best one?  I want one that will prevent
> software and hardware tool recovery.  East Tec Eraser can sanitise
> to a level over and above the US Dept of Defense standards and to
> the Guttman level (prevention of hardware tool recovery).  Is there
> a similar system around for Linux/

shred, part of the GNU fileutils.

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