Open Source C Data Wipe Software

Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot image that securely wipes hard disk drives (HDDs). DBAN is appropriate for personal use, bulk data destruction, or emergency data destruction for HDDs, but is not recommended for solid-state drives (SSDs), sanitization that requires auditable compliance documentation, or technical support.

nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host distribution, thus giving better hardware support. nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of disks. It can wipe a single drive or multiple disks simultaneously. It can operate as both a command line tool without a GUI or with a ncurses GUI.

WipeFreeSpace is a program to securely erase/wipe/overwrite/shred the free space on file systems WITHOUT DESTROYING EXISTING FILES, to prevent recovery of deleted sensitive data. This allows protecting the user's privacy when e.g. selling the drive or the whole computer. The following filesystems are supported: - Ext2/3/4, - NTFS, - XFS, - ReiserFSv3/4, - FAT12/16/32, - MinixFS1/2, - JFS, - HFS/HFS+, - OCFS. The following wiping methods are supported: Gutmann-like, random, Schneier, DoD. Additionally, WipeFreeSpace can finalize wiping the filesystem by writing blocks of zeros, which is friendly for sparse files, virtual systems and other places where zeroed-out space is not physically allocated. See the project homepage https://wipefreespace.sourceforge.io and the project Wiki in the menu above. To prevent clear-text data from being left on the drive in the first place, you can use LibSecRm (https://libsecrm.sourceforge.io), which wipes the data on-the-fly.

FOG is a free open-source cloning/imaging solution/rescue suite. FOG can be used to image Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Window 8 PCs using PXE, PartClone, and a Web GUI to tie it together. Includes featues like memory and disk test, disk wipe, av scan & task scheduling.

Wipe is a file and block device wiping utility. It is based on work by Peter Gutmann.

A secure disk wipe tool based on VeraCrypt encryption engine. Release archives are signed using PGP key with fingerprint 607E5A7AD030D38E5E5C2CA502C30AE90FAE4A6F belonging to Mounir IDRASSI and which can be found on major key servers (e.g.. https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/607E5A7AD030D38E5E5C2CA502C30AE90FAE4A6F).

remove is a simple, secure file deletion application. For further details, including the latest source code, visit https://albinoloverats.net/remove

Disk Nukem is an open source, advanced wiping utility based on Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN). It offers a new Kernel and more devices’ support, as well as a JSON/XML API, a web-based GUI, a callback/notification system in case of start,success and failure and many other features. It is well suited for a large audience including Internet Service Providers, System Administrators and Advanced End Users, just to name some. Disk Nukem is currently under development. You can contribute with donations and pull requests on GitHub.

LibSecRm (LIBrary for SECure ReMoval) is a set of replacements for these standard C functions which cause data removing from files. The data is first securely wiped on-the-fly, to protect the user's privacy, then the original functions are called. There is NO NEED to rebuild your software, because LibSecRm is a pre-loadable library, meaning you just need to RUN the software with LibSecRm loaded. LibSecRm is also a development library. The following wiping methods are supported: Gutmann-like, random, Schneier, DoD. See the project homepage https://libsecrm.sourceforge.io and the project Wiki in the menu above. To wipe data that was left on the drive by using "normal" delete operations, you can take a look at WipeFreeSpace (https://wipefreespace.sourceforge.io), which wipes the space used by files marked as deleted (and other things, too).

SimpleDriveWiper is a very simple command line tool that allows you to wipe the free space of a drive/partition. Its purpose is to obfuscate the residual of data that remains even after attempts have been made to remove it. For Windows,Linux and Mac.

Eraser software for secure deletion of files and cleaning of free disk space with full functionality and lightweight GUI.