Commands in the package
wipe
About wipe
From Debian's package description
Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access.
Wipe can permanently delete data in hard disks and flash drives (caution! several writes can damage solid medias).
This program is useful in anti-forensics and security activities.
From Debian's description of the wipe package, under that package's license.
Dependencies
Depends on
libc6
Related apps
- secure-deletetools to wipe files, free disk space, swap and memoryCommand line
- ccryptsecure encryption and decryption of files and streamsCommand line
WarpFast and secure file transfer- opensslSecure Sockets Layer toolkit - cryptographic utilityCommand line
- agesimple, modern and secure encryption toolCommand line
SecretsManage your passwords
Sources and licenses
- Name: the Debian package name.
- Summary: Debian's short description of the wipe package, under that package's license.
- Description: Debian's description of the wipe package, under that package's license.
- Versions and sizes: Debian's archive for ARM64, as on packages.debian.org.
- Popularity: Debian Popularity Contest counts.
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