hai,
i tried looking for the wipe algorithm used by DBAN. i couldn't find it on sourceforge either. pls point me to it if you can find it. there is the screen shot with some info about the algorithm http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=61951&ssid=39777 it appears to be using the PRNG MT19937 and a DoD- 3 pass wipe. Honestly, the wipe is not good enough. well actually this depends on the power of the adversary. i would recommend that you use a Gutmann wipe with a larger number of wipe passes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmann_method Sarad. Message: 5 Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:45:52 +0530 From: Arun Khan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Overwriting hard disk To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Sunday 21 Dec 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: .... snip ... > A: (courtesy dpkg bot on #debian on irc.debian.org and abrotman) > extra, extra, read all about it, dban is http://www.dban.org/ > Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot floppy/CD Thanks very much for the follow up. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
