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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.
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@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ sort: Investigate better sorting algorithms; see Knuth vol. 3.
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5.3.1, who credits Lester Ford, Jr. and Selmer Johnson, American
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Mathematical Monthly 66 (1959), 387-389.
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shred: Update shred as described here to conform to DoD 5220 rules:
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-05/msg00075.html
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Remove suspicious uses of alloca (ones that may allocate more than
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about 4k)
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#include "randread.h"
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/* Default number of times to overwrite. */
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enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 25 };
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enum { DEFAULT_PASSES = 3 };
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/* How many seconds to wait before checking whether to output another
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verbose output line. */
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