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Article ID: 10805
Last update: 11-16-07
Issue:
Does Red Hat currently have any methods available on how to do a Department of Defense (DoD) compliant disk wipe on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system?
Resolution:

Currently, Red Hat does not ship any tools with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution that can perform a DoD disk wipe.

There are, however, some third-party packages available that can accomplish this. One of which is called "scrub". scrub is a utility developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which iteratively writes patterns on files or disk devices to make retrieving the data more difficult.

Scrub implements user-selectable pattern algorithms that are compliant with DoD 5520.22-M or NNSA NAP-14.x.

The latest scrub software can be downloaded here, and it is also available in Fedora and Fedora Extras.

NOTE: Since scrub is not currently shipping with any Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases it is **NOT** supported by Red Hat. Any problems or questions should be directed to the scrub mailing list.


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