[17167] in bugtraq
Re: Shred 1.0 Bug Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. Leo Cooper)
Wed Oct 11 20:15:54 2000
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:58:41 -0700
Reply-To: "M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel@THERIVER.COM>
From: "M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel@THERIVER.COM>
X-To: Jeff Harlan <Jeff.Harlan@mail.sprint.com>
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, M. Leo Cooper wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jeff Harlan wrote:
>
> > Ran a test with Shred v1.0 and found some
> > unexpected results. This utility is supposed to
> > overwrite a file with several passes of different
> > bit patterns followed by one random pattern. The
> > file is then unlinked. This is supposed to make
> > the file unrecoverable with utilities which read
> > raw disk blocks. Using the icat utility from Dan
> > Farmer and Wietze Venema's TCT Toolkit it appears
> > that the data is not overwritten. This test was
> > done on two different RedHat 6.0 systems.
I have "officially" retired the package, will no longer distribute it,
and e-mailed the Sunsite maintainers, asking them to remove it from
their archive.
This should resolve all remaining issues.
Mendel
