data shredder

[NoOp]

On 12/21/2009 01:51 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> Even a 0.907185 kg, as someone wrote, won't be enough against *really*
> fancy hardware.

Just how fancy do you wish it to be? A 2 lb hammer (0.907185 kg) works
just fine on old drives. You just need to use 7x pound to get the
necessary result. Worked for me in my past life; 8 years as a ciphony
specialist for some world government (C4 works better but can't do that
now).

But all of this is getting a bit silly isn't it? The OP asked for a
"date shredder". He didn't specify how 'shredded' the data needs to be.
Several 'reasonable' options have been provided & the thread now has
drifted into disertations & theory on data shredding.
 I suppose that's expected, but any search of the list archives will
turn up previous.

Other than 'shred won't do this', 'TrueCrypt can do this', I've not seen
any of the "expert" contributor that have recommend much.

o I recommended looking at shred and scrub.
o Gilles recommended TrueCrypt (which isn't really an answer to the OP's
question, and has nothing to do with the OP's question)
o Amadee recomends dd - OK, but is this practical on a single file?
o Kent write some nice rules about security
o Ray does the same as Kent (who cares?) Security rules regarding
passwords et al have been in place since I worked security & ciphony in
the 1980's. Are they different now?
o Karl of course throws security to the wind... Boggles the mind.

So, other than my recommendations regarding shred & scrub and Gilles
obtuse recommendation about TrueCrypt (which I use) but doesn't have
diddly squat to do with shredding exisiting files etc.), do any of you
thread drifting 'experts' have a recommendation for the OP?