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Wipe - Secure file wiping utility

Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than commonly believed; Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) lets any moderately funded opponent recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe attempts to make this more difficult by repeatedly overwriting special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to ensure that there is a file barrier between passes and that each pass is completely written.

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Web pagehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/wipe
Source informationhttp://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=804
Version 2.2.0 (stable) released on 2004-01-10
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<wipe-main@lists.sourceforge.net> http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/wipe-main
Bug Databasehttp://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=804&atid=100804

Project contacts

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Contributors
  • Peter Gutmann

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License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-04-04
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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