Darik's Boot and Nuke
{{Short description|Data erasure software}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use American English|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox software
|name = Darik's Boot and Nuke
|logo = DBAN-Logo-118x132.png
|logo size =100px
|caption =
|screenshot =Dban11.png
|screenshot size =250px
|developer = Darik Horn
|latest_release_version = 2.3.0
|latest_release_date = {{release date|2015|06|04}}
|operating_system = Linux
|platform = x86
|language = English
|genre = Secure erase
|license = GPLv2{{Cite web|url = http://www.dban.org/node/63|title = May I rebrand DBAN?|accessdate = 24 January 2012|last = DBAN|date = 18 July 2008}}
|website = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/}}
}}
Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|iː|b|æ|n}}, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge.{{cite news |title=Deleted but Not Gone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/technology/circuits/03basics.html |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Thomas J. |last=Fitzgerald |accessdate=2009-02-03 |year=2005}} Published on November 3, 2005 The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC. The Gutmann method, Quick Erase, DoD Short (3 passes), and DOD 5220.22-M (7 passes) are also included as options to handle data remanence.
DBAN can be booted from a CD, DVD, USB flash drive or diskless using a Preboot Execution Environment. It is based on Linux and supports PATA (IDE), SCSI and SATA hard drives. DBAN can be configured to automatically wipe every hard disk that it sees on a system or entire network of systems, making it very useful for unattended data destruction scenarios. DBAN exists for x86 systems.{{cite web|url = http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/dban-2.0.0/|title = DBAN version 2.0.0 download|accessdate = 3 November 2012}}
DBAN, like other methods of data erasure, is suitable for use prior to computer recycling for personal or commercial situations, such as donating or selling a computer, as well as disposing of hard drives.{{Cite web|url=http://analysisandreview.com/systems/preparing-your-computer-for-sell-or-donation/|title=Preparing Your Computer for Sell or Donation|website=analysisandreview.com}}
Current status
In September 2012, Blancco of Finland announced its acquisition of DBAN.{{cite web|url=http://www.blancco.com/au/company-info/press-releases/2012/dban/ |title=Acquisition |accessdate=1 August 2014 |date=September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808054257/http://www.blancco.com/au/company-info/press-releases/2012/dban/ |archivedate=8 August 2014 }}
The most recent version of DBAN, 2.3.0, was released on 4 June 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/|title=Darik's Boot and Nuke - Browse /dban at SourceForge.net|website=sourceforge.net}} Since that time, DBAN development has ended and the DBAN official website is now used by Blancco to market their Blancco Drive Eraser instead.{{Cite web|url=https://dban.org/|title=Darik's Boot and Nuke – DBAN|date=November 30, 2016}}
nwipe
{{Main|nwipe}}
The {{Not a typo|dwipe}} program that DBAN uses has been forked and is available as a standalone command line program called nwipe, which is maintained by Martijn van Brummelen and released under the GNU General Public License 2.0 license.{{cite web | url=https://github.com/NHellFire/dban | title=Unofficial fork of DBAN | first=Nathan | last=Rennie-Waldock | website=GitHub | accessdate=24 December 2015}}{{cite web|url=https://wiki.andybev.com/doku.php?id=nwipe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207121841/http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Nwipe |url-status=live |archive-date=2018-02-07 |title=Nwipe |accessdate=10 August 2018 |last=Beverley |first=Andrew |author-link= |date=March 2010 }}{{cite web|url = https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe/|title = nwipe
|accessdate = 22 February 2018|last = Vanbrummelen |first = Martijn|work = github.com|date = 6 December 2017}}{{cite web|url = https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nwipe|title = Nwipe|access-date = 5 March 2020|author=Free Software Foundation|author-link=Free Software Foundation|work = directory.fsf.org|year=2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200305193933/https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nwipe|archivedate = 5 March 2020}}{{cite web|url = https://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue164_en.pdf|title =How-To Erase with nwipe |access-date = 25 December 2020|last =Hunt |first =Adam |work =Full Circle magazine |date = 25 December 2020|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20201225143247/https://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue164_en.pdf|archive-date =25 December 2020 |url-status=live }}
References
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External links
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{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
- {{Official website|http://www.dban.org}}
- [https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/ SourceForge DBAN downloads]
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Category:Data erasure software
Category:Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media