ITP: wipe
This tool includes the rc6 algorithm (which is patented?) but only as
source code - it's not compiled into the binary. Can it still go into
main? I will only package it, if it can.
Source: wipe
Section: utils
Priority: extra
Description: Secure file deletion
Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what
many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force
Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last
two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special
patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the
O_SYNC bit to force disk access.
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Homepage: http://gsu.linux.org.tr/wipe/
License: GPL
Thomas
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