securely wiping a pen drive
 

hi, is there a program in linux that can overwrite a usb pen drive multiple times, to make the data unrecoverable?

A few links for you :)

http://www.thefreecountry.com/securi...redelete.shtml

http://www.math.utk.edu/Computing/HO...ux-backup.html

http://www.thc.org/releases.php?o=1&s=4

some more: wipe, secure_delete, kpkg -X ... (if you have kde installed).
If you want to delete the complete stick, then a simple dd should do the job fine

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/your/stick

repeat that a few times.

DBAN --but I'm not sure is has a USB driver. Good to have around anyway

thanks, ill try them out :)