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+nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot
+and Nuke (DBAN). nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN dwipe
+command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host
+distribution, thus giving better hardware support.
+
+nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of
+disks. It can wipe a single drive or multiple disks simultaneously.
+It can operate as both a command line tool without a GUI or with a
+ncurses GUI.
+
+The user can select from a variety of recognised secure erase methods:
+
+- Fill With Zeros
+- Fill With Ones
+- RCMP TSSIT OPS-II
+- DoD Short
+- DoD 5220.22M
+- Gutmann Wipe
+- PRNG Stream
+- HMG IS5 enhanced