Hey, I have added a sentence to the man page indicating the number of passes in normal mode, and the patch is attached.
-- Runa Sandvik
*** /home/runa/wipe/wipe-0.21/wipe.1 2006-09-20 17:37:26.000000000 +0200 --- wipe.1 2009-09-04 23:15:36.000000000 +0200 *************** *** 25,32 **** fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access. In normal mode, 34 patterns are used (of which 8 are random). These patterns were recommended in an article from Peter Gutmann (pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz) entitled "Secure ! Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory". A quick mode allows you ! to use only 4 passes with random patterns, which is of course much less secure. .SH NOTE ABOUT JOURNALING FILESYSTEMS AND SOME RECOMMENDATIONS (JUNE 2004) Journaling filesystems (such as Ext3 or ReiserFS) are now being used by --- 25,33 ---- fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access. In normal mode, 34 patterns are used (of which 8 are random). These patterns were recommended in an article from Peter Gutmann (pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz) entitled "Secure ! Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory". The normal mode ! takes 35 passes. A quick mode allows you to use only 4 passes with ! random patterns, which is of course much less secure. .SH NOTE ABOUT JOURNALING FILESYSTEMS AND SOME RECOMMENDATIONS (JUNE 2004) Journaling filesystems (such as Ext3 or ReiserFS) are now being used by
