Global InformationNwipe information
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| Developer(s) | Martijn van Brummelen |
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| Stable release | v0.35[1]
/ November 5, 2023 |
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| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | x86 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Secure erase |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | github |
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nwipe is a Linux computer program used to securely erase data. It is maintained by Martijn van Brummelen and is free software, released under the GNU General Public License 2.0 licence. The program is a fork of the dwipe program that was previously incorporated in the DBAN secure erase disk.[2][3][4][5][6]
nwipe was created to allow dwipe to be run outside DBAN, using any host distribution. It utilizes a simple text-based ncurses user interface or can be run directly from the command line. It is available as an installable package in the repositories of many Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu.[3][6][7][8][9][10]
nwipe was first released as version 0.17 on 20 October 2014.[11]
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- ^ Rennie-Waldock, Nathan. "Unofficial fork of DBAN". GitHub. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ a b Beverley, Andrew (March 2010). "Nwipe". Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ Vanbrummelen, Martijn (6 December 2017). "nwipe". github.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ Free Software Foundation (2020). "Nwipe". directory.fsf.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ a b Hunt, Adam (25 December 2020). "How-To Erase with nwipe" (PDF). Full Circle magazine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 December 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ Canonical Ltd. (2019). "nwipe - securely erase disks". manpages.ubuntu.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
- ^ Launchpad (website) (15 March 2020). "nwipe package in Ubuntu". launchpad.net. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ Debian (2020). "Package: nwipe (0.25-1)". packages.debian.org. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ Techworld Staff (10 April 2018). "Best disk wiping tools for hard drives, smartphones and SSDs". techworld.com. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ van Brummelen, Martijn (20 October 2014). "0.17". github.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2020. Retrieved 26 December 2020.