secure deletion

[Ilmar S. Habibulin]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

> Does it doe the DoD recommended patter of deletion?  That is overwrite
> the blocks with sever different series of bit patterns to make it
> impossible to recover using the usual techniques, or is it just a
> bzero of the blocks in question?  The former is secure deletion, the
> latter is too insecure for most people that want this feature...
Bzero can be changed to some other function, is suppose that this is not a
question. The question is if this thing is needed by comunity.

> P.S.  I do think a port of even the latter would be a good thing.
So you vote for it. ;-)

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