Re: Shred 1.0 Bug Report

["M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel () THERIVER COM>]

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