After installing Eraser 6, stating Eraser gives you this message:
The following settings held invalid values:
Default file erasure method
Default unused space erasure method
Randomness data source
These settings have now been set to naive defaults.
Please check that the new settings suit your required level of security.[/quote]Eraser 6 is built on top of a plugin architecture. This means that anyone with programming skills can help write plugins which can be used together with Eraser. While useful, this poses a security risk (imagine a malicious programmer claiming to distribute an Eraser plugin!) and therefore Eraser plugins must be signed before they are loaded automatically.
The built-in erasure methods and PRNGs are also plugins. So we've got a problem: The program doesn't know that the default plugin is safe (because it's from us) yet it must be loaded automatically. So we've signed the plugin using a Certum certificate, which is a(relatively new) Certification Authority and as such not all computers has the root certificate.
To resolve this problem, you'll need to apply
every single update, especially the Root Certificates update:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931125. Install that and try again.
If that still doesn't work, press
Windows Key +
R, type in
mmc, press enter. Go to
File |
Add/Remove Snap-in and double click on the
Certificates snap in. Check
Local Computer, but if that is not available, check
My User Account; then click
OK and go to the
Certificates node under the
Trusted Root Certification Authorities node under
Certificates - Local Computer or
Certificates - Current User respectively (depending on what you selected earlier). Check that the Certum CA exist in the store. For the record: the certificate hash is
Code:
62 52 dc 40 f7 11 43 a2 2f de 9e f7 34 8e 06 42 51 b1 81 18
If the Certum CA certificate is still not in the store, you can find the corresponding certificate on a computer with the certificate and manually import the certificate. Export the certificate from the source computer as a p7b/pfx file and then import them on the server.