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John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/31/2017 8:04 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID >> has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred >> /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still running. Is this >> reasonable for it to be taking this long...? > > not at all

...the sanitization of the drive(s). the DoD multipass erase procedure is long obsolete and deprecated. It was based on MFM and RLL technology prevalent in the mid 1980s. NISPOM 2006-5220 replaced it in 2006, and says "DESTROY CONFIDENTIAL/SECRET INFORMATION PHYSICALLY". http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16130-The-Urban-Legend-of-Multipass-Hard-Disk-Overwrite.html http://www.dss.mil/documents/odaa/nispom2006-5220.pdf from that blog,... > Fortunately, several security researchers presented a paper [WRIG08 > <http://www.springerlink.com/content/408263ql11460147/>] at the F...

...(s). > > the DoD multipass erase procedure is long obsolete and deprecated. It > was based on MFM and RLL technology prevalent in the mid 1980s. NISPOM > 2006-5220 replaced it in 2006, and says "DESTROY CONFIDENTIAL/SECRET > INFORMATION PHYSICALLY". > > http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16130-The-Urban-Legend-of-Multipass-Hard-Disk-Overwrite.html > http://www.dss.mil/documents/odaa/nispom2006-5220.pdf > > from that blog,... > >> Fortunately, several security researchers presented a paper [WRIG08 >> <http://www.springerlink.com/content/408263...