

For all I know it could be a yellow or blue paper just describing the outline of the project. All I can find is this single white (?) paper from NIST on it. The only MENTION I see of it on Reddit is THIS subred in a 2 year old thread called NIST 800-88 Rev1 - Removable Media Definition and I already posted a thread in r/cryptography about this. So, I dig around and around Google, Duckduckgo, Startpage, Github, everywhere. Federal government, and its adoption has spread to countless private businesses and organizations. 1, is one of the most widely used data sanitization standards requested or required by the U.S. And, it can cover everything from mobile devices and USB drives to servers-or even technologies not yet developed. Its principles can apply to magnetic, flash-based, and other storage technologies. NIST 800-88, published by the National Institute for Standards and Technology, is known for its media sanitization categories of Clear, Purge and Destroy. Immediately, the first paragraph grabs my attention. (I have no affiliation with this company). The first link is written by the company that sells the commercial version of DBAN, Blancco, called What is NIST 800-88, and What Does “Media Sanitization” Really Mean? written in 2019. The second is a link to NIST and is a PDF file So, when I search Google I come up with two first results. I did a little Googling and I see that DoD 5220.22 has been superseded by two algorithms NIST wrote called NIST 800-88 Clear and NIST 800-88 Purge. (Also, you don't have to tell me about the Gutmann method, I know, I know). So, I was just thinking - surely some government agency or NGO or some open source project has come up with new wiping algorithms than these same old ones. HMG IS5 enhanced - Secure Sanitisation of Protectively Marked Information or Sensitive Information Verify only - This method only reads the device and checks that it is all zero. PRNG Stream - Fills the device with a stream from the PRNG. (Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory) 1,2,& 7.ĭoD 5220.22M - The American Department of Defense 5220.22-M full 7 pass wipe. RCMP TSSIT OPS-II - Royal Candian Mounted Police Technical Security Standard, OPS-IIĭoD Short - The American Department of Defense 5220.22-M short 3 pass wipe.

Quick erase - Fills the device with zeros, one round only. So, I check out the Github and I noticed they're Nwipe that has the same wiping algorithm's that I've been seeing for the past ~15 years.

So, a friend of mine was telling me some guys he knew were working on an open source freeware alternative to DBAN since it hasn't been updated past 2015 and went commercial.
