dban settings

[David Rosenstrauch]

Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
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>> 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

Interesting read.  Thanks for the info!

DR