Peter Eckersley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:14 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: ... >> My reflex was to object. Reducing the default number of passes from >> 25 to 1 seemed extreme. But after skimming through the link below, >> it's hard to argue :-) > > Really? For "Top Secret+" material, their "secure erase newsletter" > calls for 2 write passes, offset slightly on either side of the track (p > 4).
I too would feel better with a minimum of 2 or 3 passes, just in case. Although a program like shred cannot choose how far from a track to write its data, I have to wonder if one effect of its current 25-iteration approach is to write with slightly different offsets. If there are a couple of other big-name research labs that publish similar findings, we can always reduce it further. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
