Securely scrubbing Sun fileserver disk
Mitchell Wyle
lavi!wyle at relay.eu.net
Wed Dec 20 18:43:45 AEST 1989
In article <3846 at brazos.Rice.edu> Murky at cup.portal.com writes:
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>I need to bring a fileserver which has classified info on it out of the
>secure area. In order to do this, the disk must be scrubbed of all data
>according to DoD guidelines. I know Sun sells software to do this but
>management is balking at paying the $1000 Sun wants for the capability
>which will only be used once. I am looking for alternative ways (read
>cheaper) of doing this. Any pointers to PD software or possibly manual
>procedures which can do the trick?
Murky,
Even if a PD system meets or exceeds the DoD spec, it won't be approved
(verified). Buy the Sun software, or rent it from a 3rd party. I suspect
that some old diag software which writes specific bit patterns to the disk
in order to test it would meet the spec, but I wouldn't bet a security
violation on it.
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