Sat Feb 14 18:30:16 CET 1998
version 0.02 - Fixed behavioural bug: wouldn't chmod directories.
Fri Jul 24 13:45:02 EEST 1998
version 0.03 - Added silent option.
Thu Aug 6 11:35:13 EEST 1998
version 0.10 - Major changes in this version
added many conditional compilation statements for
portability. now has got auxiliary random seed
sources, which can be used if a /dev/random device is
not available. now can use RC6 for generating the
cryptographically-strong random stream for
overwriting the data, as well as arcfour.
restructured source code. currently compiles under
Linux 2.0.35, SunOS 5.5.1 and AIX 4.1.
Tue Aug 11 11:01:36 EEST 1998
version 0.11 - Added compilation settings for Solaris 2.6 x86/SPARC,
FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE; fixed a bug in the pipe handling
in random.c (thanks to C.Mason for these).
lengthened the period of the RC6-based PRNG from
an average 2^127 to a full 2^128 (thanks to John Kelsey
<kelsey@plnet.net> for explaining the period issues).
Wed Apr 14 15:32:54 EEST 1999
version 0.12 - Fixed a very SERIOUS bug in fill_random: the upper half of
the target buffer was NOT filled, therefore HALF OF THE
DATA was not subject to the random passes.
now wipe works on block as well as character devices.
wipe also tries to wipe file names and file sizes.
new options for letting the wiped files on the filesystem
and inhibiting file name and file size wiping.
Fri Jun 18 14:47:27 CEST 1999
version 0.13 - This version is SERIOUSLY BROKEN.
curiously the serious bug that should have been fixed in
version 0.12 popped up again. Thanks to Michael S. Rhee
for his diagnostic. I did some major changes in wipe's
inner workings. It now precalculates the different
fixed-pattern buffers. It is now able to do asynchronous
i/o to some extent, so that it can fill the random
buffers while the OS or the hardware is busy writing out
changes. However asynchronous i/o (i.e. the O_NONBLOCK
flag) is not supported in current Linux kernels. The way
to do it would be to use a separate thread (or a process
but that would require use shared memory). However it is
faster now.
Sun Jun 20 17:16:30 CEST 1999
version 0.14 - Consider version 0.13 as SERIOUSLY BROKEN. Filename
wiping has been cleaned up. Two extra options for
filename wiping have been added. Various bugs have
been fixed. This version is bug-free and 100% reliable.
Mon Jul 26 22:14:45 EEST 1999
version 0.15 - Some minor fixes. Thanks to Thomas Schoepf and Alexey
Marinichev for their bug-reports and patches: wipe was
crashing when it was operating on a single zero-length
file. Also, wipe was screwing up when attempting to
rename a file (during filename wiping). Furthermore,
wipe will no more ask for confirmation over stderr if
stderr is not a tty; it will print an error message and
exit. Use "-f" (force) option in scripts. Also improved
general behaviour and presentation. Added well-defined
return codes. Fixed a bug in length calculation. New
behaviour: wipe will now by default round up lengths to
the next multiple of file system block size so as to
wipe data possibly remaining in the last block of a
file; this behaviour can be inhibited with the new "-e"
option.
Thu Dec 30 21:50:59 CET 1999
version 0.16 - Included fix by Jason Axley for compiling under Solaris
2.6. Included patch sent by Paul H. Hargrove fixing a
serious bug (wipe-0.15 is making 34 random passes rather
than the proper mix of random and deterministic passes).
Mon Nov 25 23:13:45 CET 2002
version 0.17 - Removed somewhat useless REMOVE_ON_INT define. Cosmetic
changes. Added a -D option to make wipe follow symlinks
given on the command line. Improved wiping statistics ;
now reports number of symlinks and special files encoun-
tered separately. Updated e-mail addresses and URLs
(wow, free web hosting dies FAST !). Plus CVS, reinden-
tation and Vim modelines. I'd call this lifting. Oh,
and it now should work on devices and files greater
than 2 gigabytes. And I added some randomisation when
it tries the size of a file by resizing it.
Mon Feb 2 14:40:55 CET 2003
version 0.18 - Arf, an important bugfix was lost during the v0.17 cleanup.
When called with -r option, wipe would traverse to parent
directories ! Fixed, again (thanks to Thomas).
Sat Sep 13 14:53:11 CEST 2003
version 0.19 - wipe will hopefully work on large files now
Sat Jun 12 19:21:01 CEST 2004
version 0.20 - Thanks to Jim Paris for a patch fixing the
large file issue. Bumped up the version number a
bit.
Wed Sep 20 17:32:02 CEST 2006
version 0.21 - Included Debian patch for severe bug that affected the
computation of the size of large partitions.
Sun Nov 07 09:30:10 EST 2010
version 0.22 - Include patch by Karako Miklos to skip a number of patches.
Also did a clean up of headers (remove obsolete addresses
and CVS tags).
Tue Nov 11 08:06:35 EST 2010
version 0.23 - To conform to Gutmann's paper, randomize only
deterministic passes (as pointed out by Karako) and not
the whole order. (pointed out by K. Miklos). Fix
unreadable message displayed with the -X option.
Wed Nov 2 23:24:07 PDT 2016
version 0.24 - Integrated Debian patches from 0.22-4 per Joao
Eriberto Mota Filho's suggestion, except
50_hide-filenames.patch.
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