Wipe
Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the file or files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access, in order to lessen the chance of data recovery using techniques such as magnetic force microscopy.
| Tags | Security |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 10 Jan 2004 23:25
Changes: This version adds support for wiping to stdout, and fixes build on Solaris.
- 05 Sep 2003 10:37
Changes: Many bugfixes, filename truncation for % display, and many other things.
- 04 Apr 2003 03:47
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 05 Feb 2003 02:13
Changes: Many bugs were fixed and features added.
- 04 Nov 2002 11:31
Changes: Major bugfixes were made. Lots of feature enhancements were added, and major security fixes were made.
- All comments
Recent commentswipelib
Hello,
Thanks for the nice free wipe utility - I was about to start writing one myself until I found yours which had Gutmann's wiping patterns implemented.
While the program seems quite complete and nicely written I think that a library with wiping functions (based on it) might be nice too, so that you can programmatically wipe various files. Think of a Midnight Commander option Wipe file(s) or others like that - any app that deletes files could have this option to wipe first. I might start working on this - what do you think?
Cheers,
badc0ded
wipe
Wipe is a good for deleting material that is sensitive or material that say you don't want anyone to be able to find again.