[Cialug] WIPE vs SHRED?

[kristau]

Having used both, I believe their end results are the same even though
they may function differently.  I've inspected the results with
'hexdump -C' and either one will work.

On 7/16/07, Brandon Griffis <brandongriffis at gmail.com> wrote:
> For a long time I have used the utility SHRED when I wanted to (as best as
> possible) make sure all data was removed from a drive, but not physically
> destroy the drive.  I know that by default SHRED rewites random info to
> whatever output you designate 25 times.  It always seemed to do a pretty
> good job of eliminating the data.
>
> I am currently looking for a new bootable business card distro as lnx-bbc
> hasn't been updated in almost 4 years, and I came across INSERT:
> http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html
>
> They seem to have many interesting utilities (more by appearance than damn
> small linux or feather linux), and can still fit on a BBC.  It can also be
> installed to a flash drive.
>
> However, according to their application list they do not include SHRED
> (though it does mention at the top that is is an incomplete list).  They do
> however include a utility called WIPE:
> http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
>
> The SF page really doesn't give any good info.  So I'm wondering if anyone
> out there has used it, and/or can speak to how it compares to SHRED?  Or if
> anybody has suggestions for a BBC that includes SHRED.
>
> Thanks,
> Brandon
>


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