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Re: PGP Shredder for Linux servers?



 On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, John Abreau wrote: 

> One of our customers wants us to use PGP Shredder to destroy 
> sensitive data of theirs when our support people are finished 
> with it.  I looked this up and found that PGP Shredder is 
> part of the PGP Desktop product for Windows. PGP Shredder 
> overwrites a file with random bits in multiple passes before 
> actually deleting the file. 
> 
> The customer data is centrally managed from a Linux samba 
> server, though, and I need a way to do the same type of 
> file destruction on the server. What's the recommended 
> equivalent command-line software for securely deleting files 
> on Linux? 


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