wipe port

[Brad Tilley-4]

Is anyone working on a port of wipe for OpenBSD: http://wipe.sourceforge.net

If not, I'd be glad to work on this, provided it would be an acceptable port.

Brad

[Joachim Schipper-2]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:44:59PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote:
> Is anyone working on a port of wipe for OpenBSD: http://wipe.sourceforge.net
>
> If not, I'd be glad to work on this, provided it would be an acceptable port.

I don't see why it would not be accepted, but I'm not sure it's too
useful either. If you just want to make recovery inconvenient, rm -P
works fine; and if you want to make it impossible, you'll probably have
to encrypt the whole disk anyway (and throw away the key).

                Joachim

[Brad Tilley-4]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Joachim Schipper
<joachim@...> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 12:44:59PM -0500, Brad Tilley wrote:
>> Is anyone working on a port of wipe for OpenBSD: http://wipe.sourceforge.net
>>
>> If not, I'd be glad to work on this, provided it would be an acceptable port.
>
> I don't see why it would not be accepted, but I'm not sure it's too
> useful either. If you just want to make recovery inconvenient, rm -P
> works fine; and if you want to make it impossible, you'll probably have
> to encrypt the whole disk anyway (and throw away the key).
>
>                Joachim

Good points. Perhaps there's no real need. I'll skip it for now.
Others have expressed speed concerns with wipe when compared to other
tools.

Brad