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Re: file shredding tools



 John Abreau wrote: 
> 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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