From 83ae1bdd44432055e2cb6cf1502d1cc0cd651746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pádraig Brady Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:09:44 +0000 Subject: shred: change default number of overwrites from 25 to 3 * src/shred.c: The concensus is that a default of 3 passes is appropriate for current drive technologies. * src/TODO: Reference Paul Eggert's suggestion of enhancing shred to conform to DoD 5220 rules. --- TODO | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'TODO') diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index cc5b0b3dd..c630548cc 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3. 5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389. +shred: Update shred as described here to conform to DoD 5220 rules: +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html + Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than about 4k) -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2