Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 00:08, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no > point in overwriting more than once. Is not > > sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda > > su

Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/07 00:13, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no >> point in overwriting more than once. Is not >> >

Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no > point in overwriting more than once. Is not > > sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda > > sufficient? Not if you *REALLY* want

Shred Iterations

2007-03-17 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no point in overwriting more than once. Is not sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda sufficient? -- Masatran, R. Deepak <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/> pgpAfHNay75mA.pgp Description: PGP signature