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Package: wipe (0.21-5)

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 (>= 2.7-1) [not alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [alpha, ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.3) [armel]
    GCC support library

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 50.4 kB152 kB [list of files]
amd64 45.3 kB136 kB [list of files]
arm 45.8 kB136 kB [list of files]
armel 41.8 kB132 kB [list of files]
hppa 48.7 kB140 kB [list of files]
i386 42.8 kB132 kB [list of files]
ia64 61.5 kB188 kB [list of files]
mips 50.5 kB152 kB [list of files]
mipsel 50.7 kB152 kB [list of files]
powerpc 49.2 kB140 kB [list of files]
s390 47.4 kB140 kB [list of files]
sparc 44.0 kB136 kB [list of files]