Recent content by thebluemonkey

the difference is... Couldn't tell you in regards to Eraser. Perhaps it was erasing the alternate data stream...don't know. You might want to ask this question in the Eraser support forum. I also have Blowfish Advanced CS. There is no option to set how many times it repeats the wipe process...

the difference is... The difference is that a "pass" is a single wiping process applied to the entire HD, beginning to end. Thus, a predetermined wiping alogorithm may have one or several passes (e.g. DoD has either 3 or 7; Gutmann has 35). Which means that each "pass" represents a single wipe...

As expected, I have a few questions in regards to the "relative security of DBAN in its current beta release (in anticipation of it as v1.0.7). First: concerning the PRNG options, is there any notable difference in regards to the level of security provided by using ISAAC over Mersenne? Or...