[TOOL] Eraser, Sensitive Data Removal Tool

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Date: 07/23/03

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      Eraser, Sensitive Data Removal Tool
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    DETAILS

     <http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/> Eraser is an advanced security tool (for
    Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your
    hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected
    patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and DOS.

    Eraser is FREE software and its source code is released under GNU General
    Public License.

    The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "
    <http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/> Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.

    Other methods include the one defined in the
    <http://www.dss.mil/isec/nispom.htm> National Industrial Security Program
    Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with
    <http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html> pseudorandom data. You
    can also define your own overwriting methods.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The tool can be downloaded from: <http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/>
    http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

    The information has been provided by <mailto:support@heidi.ie> support
    [at] heidi.ie.

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