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Darik's Boot and Nuke

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Darik's Boot and Nuke (commonly known as DBAN) is an Open Source project hosted on Sourceforge. The program is designed to securely wipe a hard disk until data is no longer recoverable, by overwriting the data with random numbers generated by Mersenne twister (a PRNG).