Standalone secure disk eraser
This program will securely erase disks using a variety of recognised methods. It is a fork of the dwipe command used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (dban).
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ncurses_compat.patch | 0000000236 236 Bytes | |
nwipe-0.32.tar.gz | 0006363129 6.07 MB | |
nwipe.changes | 0000011109 10.8 KB | |
nwipe.spec | 0000001520 1.48 KB |
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Erico Mendonca (emendonca)
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request 942062
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Tuukka Pasanen (illuusio)
(revision 5)
- v0.32 IMPORTANT ! #322 Non functional Isaac prng is a security update. Of specific importance for anybody that might use --prng=isaac as one of nwipe's command line options. Significantly less important if you select Isaac from the GUI although still relevant, as mersenne is used not issac, despite what the GUI says. Putting --prng=isaac on the command line causes at best zeros to be written instead of a random stream, at worst the contents of a uninitialized buffer. See my comments in #322. Note, this bug existed in all previous versions of nwipe and also still exists in DBAN 2.3.0 within dwipe. Now fixed in nwipe, but as DBAN is no longer actively maintained, another reason to upgrade from DBAN to nwipe 0.32. includes the following changes: * Add ones (0xFF) wipe to the methods. Renamed Zero Fill to Fill with Zeros and the new ones wipe, is called Fill with Ones. * Add ones verication to the methods. Renamed Verify Blank to Verify Zeros (0x00) and the new verification is called Verify Ones (0xFF). * Move method information from below the list of methods to the right of the method list. This allows better use of the screen space by allowing more methods to be added to the list, especially relevant to nwipe running as a standalone application on small distros such as shredos 2020 in frame buffer mode. * Removed the old DBAN syslinux.cfg configuration hints as not relevant to nwipe. See nwipe --help or man nwipe for command line options. * Add fdatasync errors to the error summary table. * During a wipe, you can now toggle between dark screen, blank screen and default blue screen by repeatedly pressing the b key. Dark screen, which is grey text on black background has been introduced to prevent TFT/LCD image persistence on monitors that are sensitive to that issue. However, according to this article grey text on a white background may be preferable. I will probably add that option in the next release along with possibly powering off the display as an additional option. * Blanking disabled in GUI for OPS2 (mandatory requirement of standard). #326 * Total bytes written/read for ALL passes or verifications are now logged. #326 * Final blanking being enabled is no longer required for verification passes. GUI Fix. #326 * Add a summary table to the log that shows totals for pass & verification errors. #325 * Fix the missing 'Verifying' message on final blanking. #324 * Fix prng selection always using mersenne irrespective of whatever prng the user selected. #323 * Fix a non functional Isaac prng. (May have never worked even in DBAN/dwipe 2.3.0). #322 * Log whether the prng produces a stream, if not log failure message. #321 * Log the specific prng that is initialised. #320 * Log selection details to the log. #319 * Improve log messaging. #317 * Fix auto shutdown option for some distros. #315 * Fix build for musl. #301 * Fixes to summary table & fix final status message. 311 * Updates to --help options #309 * Updates to manpage. #300 * Add auto power off option on completion of wipe ( --autopoweroff ) (Thanks PartialVolume) * Fixed --nowait option that wasn't working. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add verbose option. -v, --verbose. * Add a spinner to the GUI for each drive being wiped. When nwipe is syncing the percentage completion pauses, having a spinner gives a clear indication that the wipe is still running. Each devices spinner disappears on completion of a given devices wipe. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Make log messages, especially the ones with the tag 'notice' succinct and less than 80 characters including the timestamp. This is of more importance when nwipe is used on a 80x30 terminal (ALT-F2, Shredos etc) but generally makes the logs more readable. While doing this all information was still retained. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add a summary table to the log that shows each drives status, i.e. erased or failed, throughput, duration of wipe, model, serial no etc. In particular it benefits those that wipe many drives simultaneously in rack servers. At a glance any failed drives can be seen without having to browse back through the log. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add ETA to --nogui wipes status when SIGUSR1 (kill -s USR1 (nwipes PID) is issued on the command line. * Fixed misleading throughput calculation. Throughput now shows average throughput calculated from start of wipe. * Fixed system info not being displayed in Debian Sid. #229 (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add serial number display for USB to IDE/SATA adapters. This only works if the USB to IDE/SATA adapter supports ATA pass through. See #149 for further details (Thanks PartialVolume) * Fixed disk capacity nomenclature, width and padding on drive selection screen. See #237 (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add bus type, ATA or USB, amongst others to drive selection and wipe windows. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add --nousb option. If you use the option --nousb, all USB devices will be ignored. They won't show up in the GUI and they won't be wiped if you use the --nogui --autonuke command. They will even be ignored if you specifically name them on the command line. * Miscellaneous GUI fixes, throughput display format, percentage display format to improve column alignment when wiping multiple discs. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Improve visibility of failure messages with red text on white background. (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add NVME and VIRT (loop etc) devices to device type table for display in GUI and logs. NVME devices now show up as NVME devices rather than UNK (Thanks PartialVolume) * Fixed very obscure segmentation fault going back to at least 0.24 in drive selection window when resizing terminal vertical axis while drive focus symbol '>' is pointing to the last drive of a multi drive selection window. See #248 for further details (Thanks PartialVolume) * Warn the user if they are incorrectly typing a lower case s to start a wipe, when they should be typing a capital S #262 (Thanks PartialVolume) * Warn the user if they are typing capital S in order to start a wipe but haven't yet selected any drives for wiping #261 (Thanks PartialVolume) * Add ctrl A that toggles drive selection, all drives selected for wipe or all drives deselected. #266 * Fixed compilation issue with NixOS with broken musl libc error due to missing header #275 * Fixed status bar message showing incorrect information #287 * Right Justify log labels to maintain column alignment #280 * Added nwipe version & OS info to log #297
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