Re: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing

["Anshuman G" <anshu.pg () gmail com>]

ah nice info.

I wanted to ask, has anyone had experience with
http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/ ?

I have even integrated this with Right click menu in gnome(nautilus)
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd10/anshu1234/wipe.png .

Regards,
Anshuman

On 8/31/07, Dereck Martin <dmartin () packetdrivers com> wrote:
> Norton Used to have a disk wipe utility I think it is apart of ghost now.  It is DOD compliant.
>
> http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ Peter Gutmann compliant (opensource)
> http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ Peter Gutmann compliant (opensource)
>
> I however prefer the Peter Gutmann Disk Wiping Procedure.  DOD only recommends 3-7 passes for disk wiping compliance. 
>  Gutmann recommends 35 passes.
>
> http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/
>
> I have read articles where trained professionals have been able to recovers bits of data after as many as 26 multiple 
> pattern wipes.  I'm sure the data was miniscule, but nonetheless recovered.
>
> Some people do this manually with a linux boot disk and the dd commands by running a wipe of alternating between 
> zeros and random data.
>
> #~> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
> #~> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
>
> But it takes a lot longer.
>
> Dereck Martin
> Network Operations Engineer
> PacketDrivers IT Outsourcing, LLC
> http://www.packetdrivers.com