wipe utility

[Tom Buskey]

> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:53, Fred wrote:
>> How is "wipe" any different from "shred", which is already on your
>> linux system?
>
> Dunno.  Could be that they're basically the same.
>
>> I keep my /tmp partition as ext2 for that sole reason. Anything
>> sensitive goes there, and I can shred it afterwards.
>
> If you want to be more secure, you could always have /tmp be a tmpfs
> (aka a ram disk).  Then the data is never stored on a hard drive
> anyway.

/tmp on ramdisk will be faster too.

>
> Well, excluding swap I suppose.  Nevermind.
>

If you can set things up ahead of time, use a encrypted partition.  If you
want to lose the data, lose the key.

btw - if you're worried about swap, OpenBSD can (does?) protect it.  If
you're really need that kind of security (or are that paranoid) why are
you running linux and not OpenBSD?