Hi Mollydog!
At the IEEE Computer Society's website there is a sampling of free and
commercially available sanitization tools that can be used to erase
hard drives.
I reviewed the list (table 4) and found that ?DataScrubber? and
?Unishred Pro? work with Unix.
SOURCE: The IEEE Computer Society
http://www.computer.org/security/v1n1/garfinkel3.htm
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Data Scrubber
?The Data Scrubber Hard Drive Degaussing Software is a software-based
product that erases - to Department of Defense specifications - all
data written to 5 separate data blocks in the computer.?
Features:
?The Data Scrubber is available in Windows, DOS and UNIX platforms
(non-IDE Drives) and runs under SunOS, Solaris 2.6, IRIX or H/UX.
The Data Scrubber is DIS/DoD certified to the following standards: DoD
5200.28, NCSC-TG-025, AFSSI 5020, OPNAV 5510 and AR-380-19. The Data
Scrubber is available in Windows, DOS and UNIX platforms and runs
under SunOS, Solaris, IRIX or H/UX.?
http://www.datadev.com/ds100.html
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UniShred Pro
?This is a commercial product sold by Los Altos Technologies that has
some interesting features and certainly some limitations. It operates
on the same principles as wipe and secure delete, i.e. overwriting
data numerous times, then removing the data. UniShred supports most of
the main flavors of Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX). UniShred
overwrites not only all addressable areas of the disk, but also
renders the grown defect areas of the disk secure as well. The other
utilities fail at this as they can only access areas that the disk can
access.?
?UniShred has been recognized by many US government agencies such as
the Dept of Navy, Dept of Defense, and Dept. of Energy as meeting
their stringent regulations for disk cleansing and sanitizing. The
product supports all the predefined overwrite patterns specified by
these agencies and also allows the user to specify their patterns.
There is a good reporting system that allows the user to create a
hard copy of the actions taken by UniShred for audit purposes.?
http://www.giac.org/practical/gsec/Ken_Hatfield_GSEC.pdf
UniShred Pro
http://www.lat.com/
Order Form
http://www.lat.com/Order_Form.html
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BCWipe for UNIX
The BCWipe software is intended to give you a confidence that your
deleted files cannot be recovered by an intruder. BCWipe repeatedly
overwrites special patterns to the files to be destroyed. BCWipe for
UNIX offers two wiping schemas:
US DoD 5200.28-STD standard
default is 7 passes defined by standard
user-defined number of passes
BCWipe for UNIX brings following advantage:
- Delete files with wiping. BCWipe for UNIX offers military grade wiping schemes.
- Files slacks wiping. File slack is the disk space from the end of a
file up to end of the last block/cluster used by that file.
- Wiping a whole hard drive. This function allows the wiping of entire
hard drives which is useful where the user sells or disposes of the
computer of hard disk or where the computer is re-assigned to another
user.
- Bootable BCWipe CD/floppy. Bootable BCWipe disk is an ideal solution
for wiping plenty of hard drives.
http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcwipe_unix.htm
Download Centre
http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcwipe_unix.htm
Prices and how to order
http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcwipe_unix.htm
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Additional information that may interest you
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The following programs work with UNIX for PC
Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser
?Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and
sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M?
?This is security software for unrecoverable data elimination for any
computer capable of booting in DOS mode from floppy drive. It uses
access to the drive?s data on a physical level via BIOS bypassing
logical drive structure organization, thus it does not matter what
operating systems and file systems located on the machine.?
?It can work with DOS, Windows 95 / 98, Windows NT / 2000 / XP, Linux,
Unix for PC.?
http://www.killdisk.com/eraser.htm
Features
http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm
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DiskSanitizer
?DiskSanitizer has the ability to sanitize any floppy or hard drive(s)
connected to your computer, regardless of the file system and the
operating system that resides on each drive (works with FAT12, FAT16,
FAT32, NTFS, DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Unix, etc.)?
East-Tec DiskSanitizer GOV - Highest Security Level:
? Even the most sophisticated data recovery equipment used by
government agencies or law enforcement personnel are unable to restore
data that was sanitized with the advanced methods offered by the GOV
Edition.
http://pcprivacycentral.com/id_data_security_et_disksanit.htm
East-Tec DiskSanitizer GOV
?Data is removed according with U.S. Department of Defense standards
or custom user security levels. East-Tec DiskSanitizer can be operated
from a floppy disk to sanitize any drive from the computer, regardless
of the file system or the operating system.?
http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=2013-11&affiliate=2633
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WipeDrive
US Department of Defense Approved
WipeDrive is listed as an approved disk sanitizing solution by the
U.S. Dept. of Defense!
System Requirements
WipeDrive 3.0 can be used with all versions of DOS, Windows 3.x, 9x,
ME, NT, 2000, XP, OS/2, and PC based Linux/Unix.
http://www.accessdata.com/Product07_Overview.htm?ProductNum=07
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Search Criteria
erase data software
UNIX disk eraser
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Sanitation tools DoD certified
I hope you find this helpful! If anything is unclear with my answer,
please ask for clarification.
Best Regards,
Bobbie7 |
