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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-13 12:02:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-13 12:02:29 +0000 |
| commit | 751ac5be401fcb4b633a5ea3116de2f9d7452bbb (patch) | |
| tree | 442d9b37f3c5f5d306a9eef7b35363b78ac1c5a3 /README.md | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 0.36. (diff) | |
| download | nwipe-751ac5be401fcb4b633a5ea3116de2f9d7452bbb.tar.xz nwipe-751ac5be401fcb4b633a5ea3116de2f9d7452bbb.zip | |
Adding upstream version 0.37.upstream/0.37upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -30,10 +30,15 @@ The user can select from a variety of recognised secure erase methods which incl * Verify Ones - This method only reads the device and checks that it is filled with ones (0xFF). * HMG IS5 enhanced - Secure Sanitisation of Protectively Marked Information or Sensitive Information -nwipe also includes the following pseudo random number generators: +nwipe also includes the following pseudo random number generators (prng): * Mersenne Twister * ISAAC + In addition to the above, the following prngs will be available in v0.37 +* XORoshiro-256 +* Lagged Fibonacci +* AES-CTR (openssl) + These can be used to overwrite a drive with a stream of randomly generated characters. nwipe can be found in many [Linux distro repositories](#which-linux-distro-uses-the-latest-nwipe). |