Re: file shredding tools

["Gregory Boyce-3" <user=138@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Kent Borg wrote: 

> Related question: What about a utility to severely damage files in predicable 
> way.  Specifically, zero bytes at regular intervals in an encrypted file, 
> making decryption extremely difficult/impossible.  Oh, and before zeroing the 
> data, make a copy of those bytes and scp them someplace distant. 
> 
> If using a 128-bit cipher like AES, zero one byte out of every 16, and 
> decryption is going to be pretty damn busted. 
> 
> Now, travel back to US, they get snoopy and copy your disk.  No worry, they 
> won't make much sense of it. 
> 
> On arrival you scp the bytes back to your computer, run the damage utility 
> backwards to put the right bytes back in the file, and now it can be 
> decrypted.