BCWipe for UNIX
BCWipe for UNIX 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 the following wiping schemes:
- US DoD 5220.22-M standard (7 passes with verification)
- User-defined number of passes
- Peter Gutmann's 35 pass scheme. Please refer to article "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" by Peter Gutmann.
BCWipe features
BCWipe for UNIX is designed to be truly multiplatform solution. Supported systems list include variety of UNIX flavors*:
- Linux 2.0-2.6
- FreeBSD 3.0-4.6
- OpenBSD 2.8
- Solaris 8-10
- Digital UNIX 4
- SGI Irix 6.5 (wiping block devices was not tested)
- IBM AIX 5
- HP-UX 10, 11
BCWipe for UNIX brings following advantages to systems listed above:
- Delete files with wiping
- BCWipe for UNIX offers military grade wiping schemas.
- Files slacks wiping
- File slack is the disk space from the end of a file up to end of the last block or 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.
Changelog
- 28-August-2008 | v.1.7-7
- Critical bug for AIX 5.2 fixed.
- 04-February-2008 | v.1.7-3
- Temporary files creation on HP-UX 11 fixed.
- 20-December-2007 | v.1.7-2
- Error in getting linked device size for Solaris fixed.
- 11-December-2007 | v.1.7
- Last pass data verification added according to US DoD 5220.22-M.
- 17-February-2006 | v.1.6
- Options for test wiping passes added (overwriting by zeros and overwriting by writing sector numbers). Minor bug fixes
- 24-March-2004 | v.1.4
- NAS mode wiping added.
- 29-August-2003 | v.1.3
- Free space wiping added.
- 18-October-2002 | v.1.2
- Program options changed; User documentation added.
- 01-October-2002
- BCWipe for UNIX v1.1 is announced