dban settings

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

> Just wondering:  what are reasonable settings to choose when dban'ing a
> hard drive?  Most notably:  how many rounds should I set it to perform
> to be *reasonably* sure the data's nice and wiped.  (Note:  the use of
> the word "reasonably".  No need for ultra-paranoid settings.)

In fact, one pass is enough. See:

   http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-gutmann.html

Daniel Feenberg

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> DR
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