Darik's boot & Nuke is free and will do unlimited passes
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
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From: "Timmothy Lester" <Timmothy.Lester (at) primeadvisors (dot) com [email concealed]>
To: <ragdelaed (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]>; <security-basics (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:34 AM
Subject: RE: DoD aproved disk wiping tool

>I believe killdisk's free version only supports 1-pass, you have to pay
> for DoD wipes
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> I forgot to mention a good utility called Eraser, which now includes
> DBAN. Eraser can be installed over the network and scheduled to erase
> unused disk-space, or files. It can use several different wiping
> methods, including DoDs. It's a must have...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed] [mailto:listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]]
> On Behalf Of ragdelaed (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:57 AM
> To: security-basics (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
> Subject: Re: DoD aproved disk wiping tool
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> These support DOD 5220.22-M guidelines and are free. They may support
> 5200.28, not 100%. The non software based method is degaussing.
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> KillDisk
> http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
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> Secure Erase. This is the purge approved method that seems to be the
> most efficient method. It works on SATA/ATA drives for the most part, no
> SCSI. Very fast. Free too.
> http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
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> I dont know of any network based tools that can wipe a drive. You might
> be able to mount the remote drive with linux and the dd it, but that
> would not be approved. I think dd local would meet requirements, but not
> network based.
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> The hard part is that you have to deploy something to the remote target
> to keep the deletion going after the deletion has removed the functional
> parts of the drive and dropped it from the network. In order to verify
> this, I dont know if anyone would approve of a network based solution.
>
> Its best to pull it and wipe it locally.
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