secure deletion

[Dag-Erling Smorgrav]

"Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick at mindstep.com> writes:
> I agree with that last statement. An implementation on FreeBSD probably does
> not need to write multiple times to the disk.

Wouldn't work, anyway, unless you disable write caching (not just on
the disk, but in the disk driver as well - no soft updates!).
Otherwise, all passes but the last will be ignored, unless you wipe a
really big file (too big to fit in cache).

DES
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