file shredding tools

["John Abreau-18" <user=66@nabble.blu.org>]

 I have a customer who requires that their data be destroyed when 
we're done with it. On Windows laptops, they require us to use 
PGP Desktop's shredder functionality. 

Four our ftp server, they're still undecided. They did tell us 
we cannot put their data on our normal customer ftp server 
due to caching in LVM and RAID. 

I've found that GNU coreutils has a "shred" command, and there's 
also a "wipe" package available, also a GNU tool. Then there are 
some commercial alternatives such as 

    BCWipe - http://www.jetico.com
    Unishred Pro - http://www.lat.com

What do these commercial alternatives provide that the GNU tools 
don't? I've examined their websites, and I haven't found anything 
to help me understand the differences. 


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