This is a list of utilities for performing data erasure.
| Name | Link | Publisher | Operating system(s) | Interface(s) | License type(s) |
Notes |
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| (various packages) | ext link | Blancco | ? | ? | ? | |
| Active@ ERASER | ext link | LSoft Technologies (ext link) | Windows, OS-independent (MS-DOS) [Notes 1] |
Windows: graphical OS-independent: text-mode |
Proprietary | |
| Active@ KillDisk | ext link | LSoft Technologies (ext link) | Windows, MS-DOS, OS-independent (MS-DOS) [Notes 1] |
Windows: graphical, MS-DOS: text-mode, OS-independent: text-mode |
Free software | |
| Autoclave | ext link | Josh Larios (ext link) (for University of Washington) |
OS-independent (Linux) [Notes 1] | ? | Free software | support ended March 3, 2005 [1] |
| BCWipe | int link | Jetico (ext link) | Windows, Unix |
? | ? | |
| CBL Data Shredder | int link | CBL Data Recovery Technologies (ext link) | Windows, MS-DOS, OS-independent [Notes 1] |
? | Free software | |
| Compliance Suite | ext link | CyberScrub (ext link) | Windows | graphical | Proprietary | |
| cyberCide | ext link | CyberScrub (ext link) | OS-independent [Notes 1] | text-mode | Proprietary | |
| Darik’s Boot and Nuke (aka DBAN) |
int link | Darik Horn (for GEEP EDS) | OS-independent (Linux) [Notes 1] | ? | Free software | |
| Data Sanitizer | ext link | Disk Doctors (ext link) | Windows | graphical | Proprietary | |
| Disk Redactor | CEZEO Software (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Disk Utility | int link | Apple | Mac OS | graphical, command-line |
Proprietary part of Mac OS |
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| Disk Wipe | DTI Data | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Disk Wipe | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Eraser | Eraser Team (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| EraserDrop Portable | PortableApps.com | ? | ? | ? | ||
| File Shredder | WipeSoft or Pow Tools (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Freeraser | Codyssey (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| HDDerase (aka Secure Erase) |
int link | University of California San Diego Center for Magnetic Recording Research (ext link) |
OS-independent (MS-DOS), [Notes 1] MS-DOS |
command-line | ? | |
| Master Shredder | InterCrypto (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Nwipe | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Overwrite | Salvatore “antirez” Sanfilippo (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| PC Inspector E-MAXX |
Convar (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Privacy Suite | CyberScrub (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Roadkil’s Disk Wipe | “Roadkil” (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| SDelete | Sysinternals (now Winternals) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| Secure Delete | Object Media (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| shred | int link | GNU Project | Unix | command-line | ? | included in GNU Core Utilities |
| srm (aka secure rm and Secure Remove) |
int link | Dirk Jagdmann (ext link), ”Null Pointer” (ext link) |
Windows, Unix (including Mac OS X and Linux) |
command-line | Open source | |
| Wipe | “Nester” | ? | ? | ? | ||
| WipeDrive | White Canyon Software (ext link) | ? | ? | ? | ||
| ZDelete | LSoft Technologies (ext link) | ? | ? | ? |
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