-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Taking the avarage cost of an HD (or similar device) device I'd suggest just shred it instead of trying degaussing or other secure methods. Just feed the hd in question to a high speed multipurpose shredder, and dump the remnants into a furnace ;-> Of course, that's not what the original poster wanted to know, but if your data are REALLY sensitive totally destroying the carrying media is the only sensible way.... regards A.Sarras - -----Original Message----- From: auto222418at_private [mailto:auto222418at_private] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:19 PM To: forensicsat_private Subject: Re: wipe utilities There have been many recommendations made regarding wipe utilities and secure deletion. Being that this is a field of expertise for me (currently putting together a utility myself, you'll see it on SourceForge soon) I thought I would toss in a couple comments. If you are simply looking to remove data and mke it so that amateur software based attacks cannot retrieve the data the *IX command: dd if=/dev/{u,r}andom of=/dev/driveletter bs=1k a couple times (three, preferably a bs=1 and then a bs=512k in there) and then following it with a dd if=/dev/zero, etc. will be adequate. However, if you are looking for your data to be removed to securely, I highly [...] (very long and excellent part removed for the sake of bandwidth) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBOzbEMn/j44UBWb5aEQIs7gCgx4IhHp+ucdhXwJo4aiP2Hq0stiQAn0r+ R2V9R/EpkA7W+Z2nGcwZ9H9M =R2FH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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