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Can someone point me in the right direction for a utility that will erase hdd's to DOD specification. I have a client that wants me to make sure that his data has been erased from the hdd.
There was a distro just for this and it went onto a USB stick. Basically it was a minimal install with 'wipe' on it; 'wipe' was just run on the raw device (/dev/whatever) so you plugged in the USB stick, selected 'yes', and left the laptop running over the weekend. As already discussed in previous threads, multiple runs of 'dd' with a good pseudo-random number generator would run faster and probably give the same results (you need to look into the actual requirements to see).
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