Darik’s Boot and Nuke boot

Posted on January 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized by admin

Darik’s Boot and Nuke (commonly known as DBAN) is an open source project hosted on Sourceforge. The program is designed to securely wipe a hard disk until data is no longer recoverable, by overwriting the data with random numbers generated by Mersenne twister (a PRNG). The Gutmann method is included with DBAN.

DBAN can be booted from a floppy disk, CD, or USB flash drive and it is based on Linux. It supports IDE, SCSI and SATA hard drives.


See also

  • File wiping
  • File deletion


External links

  • Project Page
  • Freshmeat page

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