Shredding files

[Neil Winchurst]

Brad De Vries wrote:
> On 11/26/06, Neil Winchurst <neil at holsdevon.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> When I was working with my previous distro (Mandriva) I sometimes used
>> GPG for encryption. I am sure that it included a shredder, that is a way
>> of deleting files by actually overwriting the data many times to make
>> sure that it could not be retrieved. This was much, much safer than
>> simply using the delete key which left the contents intact.
>>
>> I have set up GPG on kubuntu edgy now but I cannot see any sign of
>> anything equivalent to the shredder. Does anyone know of anything like
>> it in Kubuntu please?
>>
>> Neil Winchurst
>>     
>
> Neil, in addition to the shred capabilities of GPG, there is an OS
> command called "shred" which will destroy the data within a file
> before it deletes it.
>
> Check out man:shred to see more options.
>
> HTH,
> Brad.
>
>   

Thanks, I have done that. Have not noticed that one before.

Neil
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