Wipe function?

[Joseph Bruni]

Not surprising. I think the #1 Rule of Life is, "It's more complicated 
than you think."

;)



On Tuesday, August 26, 2003, at 03:05  PM, David Shaw wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:42:24PM -0600, Joseph Bruni wrote:
>
>> It's probably not a good idea to burn up all your entropy like
>> that. Filling the file full of zeroes would work just as well.
>
> Peter Gutmann wrote a fascinating paper on this subject.  It turns out
> that zeroes aren't enough.
>
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
>
> David
>
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