Editing Darik's Boot and Nuke

{{Short description|Data erasure software}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use American English|date=December 2020}}
{{Infobox software
 |name = Darik's Boot and Nuke
 |logo = DBAN-Logo-118x132.png
 |logo size =100px
 |caption =
 |screenshot =Dban11.png
 |screenshot size =250px
 |developer = Darik Horn
 |latest_release_version = 2.3.0
 |latest_release_date = {{release date|2015|06|04}}
 |operating_system = [[Linux]]
 |platform = [[x86]]
 |language = [[English language|English]]
 |genre = [[Data remanence|Secure erase]]
 |license = [[GNU General Public License|GPLv2]]<ref name="GPL">{{Cite web|url = http://www.dban.org/node/63|title = May I rebrand DBAN?|accessdate = 24 January 2012|last = DBAN|date = 18 July 2008}}</ref>
 |website = {{URL|https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/}}
}}

'''Darik's Boot and Nuke''', also known as '''DBAN''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|iː|b|æ|n}}, is a [[free and open-source software|free and open-source]] project hosted on [[SourceForge]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Deleted but Not Gone |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/technology/circuits/03basics.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |first=Thomas J. |last=Fitzgerald |accessdate=2009-02-03 |year=2005}} Published on November 3, 2005</ref> The program is designed to securely [[data erasure|erase]] a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer [[data recovery|recoverable]], which is achieved by overwriting the data with [[pseudorandom number generator|pseudorandom numbers]] generated by [[Mersenne Twister]] or [[ISAAC (cipher)|ISAAC]]. The [[Gutmann method]], Quick Erase, DoD Short (3 passes), and [[DOD 5220.22-M]] (7 passes) are also included as options to handle [[data remanence]].
DBAN can be booted from a [[Compact Disc|CD]], [[Digital Versatile Disc|DVD]], [[USB flash drive]] or diskless using a [[Preboot Execution Environment]]. It is based on [[Linux]] and supports [[Parallel ATA|PATA]] (IDE), [[SCSI]] and [[Serial ATA|SATA]] hard drives. DBAN can be configured to automatically wipe every hard disk that it sees on a system or entire network of systems, making it very useful for unattended data destruction scenarios. DBAN exists for [[x86]] systems.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/dban-2.0.0/|title = DBAN version 2.0.0 download|accessdate = 3 November 2012}}</ref>

DBAN, like other methods of [[data erasure]], is suitable for use prior to [[computer recycling]] for personal or commercial situations, such as donating or selling a computer, as well as disposing of hard drives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://analysisandreview.com/systems/preparing-your-computer-for-sell-or-donation/|title=Preparing Your Computer for Sell or Donation|website=analysisandreview.com}}</ref>

==Current status==
In September 2012, [[Blancco]] of Finland announced its acquisition of DBAN.<ref name="announced">{{cite web|url=http://www.blancco.com/au/company-info/press-releases/2012/dban/ |title=Acquisition |accessdate=1 August 2014 |date=September 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808054257/http://www.blancco.com/au/company-info/press-releases/2012/dban/ |archivedate=8 August 2014 }}</ref>

The most recent version of DBAN, 2.3.0, was released on 4 June 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/|title=Darik's Boot and Nuke - Browse /dban at SourceForge.net|website=sourceforge.net}}</ref> Since that time, DBAN development has ended and the DBAN official website is now used by Blancco to market their [[Blancco#Products|Blancco Drive Eraser]] instead.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dban.org/|title=Darik's Boot and Nuke – DBAN|date=November 30, 2016}}</ref>

==nwipe==
{{Main|nwipe}}
The {{Not a typo|dwipe}} program that DBAN uses has been forked and is available as a standalone [[command line]] program called ''nwipe'', which is maintained by Martijn van Brummelen and released under the [[GNU General Public License]] 2.0 license.<ref name="github">{{cite web | url=https://github.com/NHellFire/dban | title=Unofficial fork of DBAN | first=Nathan | last=Rennie-Waldock | website=[[GitHub]] | accessdate=24 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="NWipe">{{cite web|url=https://wiki.andybev.com/doku.php?id=nwipe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207121841/http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Nwipe |url-status=live |archive-date=2018-02-07 |title=Nwipe |accessdate=10 August 2018 |last=Beverley |first=Andrew |author-link= |date=March 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe/|title = nwipe
|accessdate = 22 February 2018|last = Vanbrummelen |first = Martijn|work = github.com|date = 6 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="FSF">{{cite web|url = https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nwipe|title = Nwipe|access-date = 5 March 2020|author=Free Software Foundation|author-link=Free Software Foundation|work = directory.fsf.org|year=2020|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20200305193933/https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Nwipe|archivedate = 5 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="FC164">{{cite web|url = https://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue164_en.pdf|title =How-To Erase with nwipe |access-date = 25 December 2020|last =Hunt |first =Adam |work =[[Full Circle magazine]] |date = 25 December 2020|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20201225143247/https://dl.fullcirclemagazine.org/issue164_en.pdf|archive-date =25 December 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
* {{Official website|http://www.dban.org}}
*[https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/files/dban/ SourceForge DBAN downloads]

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