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Package: wipe (0.21-9 and others)

Secure file deletion

Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access.

Tags: User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Security: Privacy, Works with: Files

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.2) [hppa, i386, mips, mipsel]
    GNU C könyvtár: megosztott könyvtárak
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.2.5) [amd64]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [armel, powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.2) [ia64]
    GNU C könyvtár: megosztott könyvtárak
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.4.0) [armel]
    GCC támogató programkönyvtár

Download wipe

Download for all available architectures
Architecture Version Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 0.21-9 46.0 kB92 kB [list of files]
armel 0.21-9+b1 42.6 kB132 kB [list of files]
hppa 0.21-9 48.8 kB140 kB [list of files]
i386 0.21-9 42.5 kB132 kB [list of files]
ia64 0.21-9+b1 61.2 kB184 kB [list of files]
mips 0.21-9 49.2 kB148 kB [list of files]
mipsel 0.21-9 49.4 kB148 kB [list of files]
powerpc 0.21-9 49.4 kB140 kB [list of files]
s390 0.21-9 47.4 kB140 kB [list of files]
sparc 0.21-9 44.9 kB136 kB [list of files]