Darik's Boot and Nuke

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Darik's Boot and Nuke
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DBAN before the start process (above) and during a deletion process (below)
developer Darik Horn, Vanadac Support
License (s) GPL ( Free Software )
Current  version 2.3.0 (June 4, 2015)
Languages) English
dban.sourceforge.net

Darik's Boot and Nuke (mostly abbreviated with the acronym “ DBAN ”) is a free , Linux -based live system , the only task of which is to permanently erase hard drives or other writable data storage media . As a result, the files can not be recovered even with special forensic tools. The distribution is limited to the bare essentials and is comparatively very small in size. Thanks to the fact that DBAN can be started from removable media as well as via PXE , all available data carriers (as long as they are writable and their controller type is supported) can be deleted.

DBAN supports the controller types IDE , SATA, SATA2 , XT , SCSI and PATA ; algorithms such as the DoD 5220.22-M standard , the Gutmann method or the Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II standard are offered for formatting .

reception

  • ZDNet.de recommends the use of DBAN before selling a used hard drive.
  • The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote an article about erasing hard drives using the Windows version of DBAN.
  • Computer Bild judges that the program deletes data on entire data carriers "safely but slowly".
  • The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) classifies DBAN as suitable with restrictions and with reference to options to be selected.

The point of overwriting hard disks multiple times - as also offered by DBAN - is, however, questioned. A study from 2008 came to the conclusion that after overwriting the data once, it was almost impossible to restore it, even if it was overwritten with zeros instead of randomly generated data.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Thoma: DBAN - securely erase hard drives . Golem.de , July 5, 2010.
  2. ↑ DBAN - Darik's Boot And Nuke . zdnet.de.
  3. ↑ How to delete hard disks with DBAN ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Hamburger Abendblatt dated April 11, 2006. Online at abendblatt.de.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  4. ↑ Test: Data deletion program Darik's Boot and Nuke DBAN 1.0.7
  5. ↑ How to delete data correctly ( Memento from March 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Information sheet from the BSI . Online at bsi-fuer-buerger.de (as of March 21, 2013).
  6. ↑ Harald Bögeholz: Secure deletion: overwrite once is sufficient . Heise online , January 16, 2009.