app-misc/secure_delete-2.3.ebuild Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utlities by THC This is one of several good applications based on Peter Gutman's 1996 USENIX presentation. This suite of utilities is released by The Hacker's Choice, a fairly competent German security/hacker group. They include an actual copy of Peter Gutman's presentation in addition to a comparison with other similar utilities. I was very impressed with this implementation. It should be noted that sfill and srm are pretty useless on a journalling filesystem. There are, however, 2 other useful utilities for any system. I also submitted an ebuild for wipe, an alternative. We should let the users choose! :) Maybe it should be noted somewhere that if you are really looking to nuke your sensitive/illegal data, you should use DBAN: http://dban.sourceforge.net/
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