Darik's Boot and Nuke

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Darik's Boot and Nuke
Developer: Darik Horn
Latest release: 1.0.7 / August 13, 2006
Use: File wiping
License: GNU General Public License
Website: dban.sourceforge.net

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).

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

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