In a project I am doing I want to give users the option of ‘securely’ deleting a file – as in, overwriting it with random bits or 0’s. Is there an easy-ish way of doing this in C#.NET? And how effective would it be?
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In a project I am doing I want to give users the option of ‘securely’ deleting a file – as in, overwriting it with random bits or 0’s. Is there an easy-ish way of doing this in C#.NET? And how effective would it be?
You could invoke sysinternals SDelete to do this for you. This uses the defragmentation API to handle all those tricky edge cases.
If you want to repackage that logic in a more convenient form, the API is described here.