FastBorn — Secure Disk Erasure Tool

Wipe lab · interactive simulation

Watch every sector go dark.

Pick a drive and a mode, then hit wipe. This is a visual simulation of what FastBorn v1.0 does on real hardware: overwrite every sector, read back 100 random sectors, and write a JSON report to the USB stick.

Target drive

Erase mode

Estimated real-world time – rough estimate from drive size ÷ sustained write speed × passes

/dev/sdasector map · 1 cell ≈ 0.1% of disk

READY — DATA PRESENT

0% verified 0/100

ERASEDVERIFICATION PASSED

documentsphotossystemfree0x000xFFrandom

// /fastborn-logs/ report appears here after verification

Workflow

Plug. Boot. Wait. Done.

Built for bulk PC cleanup in internet cafés, offices and school labs. No keyboard, no menus, no decisions at the machine: the default path runs itself.

01Flash USBRufus / dd

02Plug inany PC

03BootGRUB · 3s

04Wipeall disks, parallel

05Verify100 sectors · JSON log

06Rebootpull USB, install OS

fastborn — live boot simulationstandby

Erase modes

Two modes. One choice.

GRUB waits three seconds. Touch nothing and Quick mode starts; pick Full for sensitive data.

DEFAULT

> Quick

~15–20 min for an 80 GB disk

0x00

1-pass zero fill of every sector, MBR included
Starts automatically after the 3-second GRUB timeout
Made for internet cafés, offices and labs
Clears boot-sector malware along with the data

kernel flag fastborn.mode=quick · log method quick-1pass-zero

SENSITIVE DATA

> Full

~2+ hours for an 80 GB disk

0x000xFFRND0x000xFFRNDRND

DoD 5220.22-M, seven overwrite passes via nwipe
Mersenne Twister PRNG for the random passes
For drives that held sensitive data
Selected manually from the GRUB menu

kernel flag fastborn.mode=full · log method full-dod522022m-7pass

Comparison

DBAN is gone. This isn't.

DBAN was sold to Blancco and frozen on an ancient kernel; nwipe is great but isn't bootable on its own. FastBorn wraps a modern kernel and nwipe into a zero-touch stick.

Feature	FastBorn	DBAN	nwipe
Zero-touch (plug & run)	█ YES	— NO	— NO
NVMe support	█ YES	— NO	█ YES
Quick mode (1-pass)	█ YES	— NO	█ YES
JSON erasure report	█ YES	— NO	— NO
Verification pass	█ YES	— NO	— NO
Auto-reboot	█ YES	— NO	— NO
Modern kernel	█ 6.6 LTS	— 2.6.x	~ depends on distro
Bootable ISO	█ YES	█ YES	— needs ShredOS
Active development	█ YES	— sold to Blancco	█ YES

Install

Write it to USB.

One ~20 MB ISO, runs entirely from RAM and never touches the target disks while booting. The boot stick itself is excluded automatically (removable=1).

01Download Rufus (portable, no install)
02Plug in the USB stick and select it as Device
03Boot selection → fastborn.iso
04Partition scheme MBR · target BIOS or UEFI
05START → choose DD Image mode → OK
altbalenaEtcher: Flash from file → select target → Flash!

v1.0

fastborn.iso · 19.9 MB · BIOS + UEFI · Linux 6.6 LTS

↓ Download ISO

SHA-256

6f1380a91a61bec991f5e6787a75df8b62c86ed69685c9539fdd86d9bf6a29dc

V2 · in development

Next: evidence you can sign.

V2 rebuilds FastBorn around fail-closed safety and verifiable evidence: native sanitize commands, full readback, parallel coordination and cryptographically signed sanitization certificates.

V2 is not a qualified release yet. Normal V2 images ship without an arming document and deliberately stop before any erase command; destructive engines run only in guarded QEMU lab images. Download v1.0 for real use today.

M0–M1

Boot & packaging repair
Boot / report media protection
Preflight records
Durable per-disk job state

M2

HDD overwrite + full readback
Fail-closed ATA / NVMe inspection
NVMe Format & Sanitize, ATA Sanitize
Exact-match hardware qualification gate

M3

Failure-isolated parallel coordinator
Hashed, frozen execution manifest
5-second auto / manual boot choice
Target control panel & arming gate

M4a–c

Detached Ed25519 report signatures
NIST Appendix C aligned certificates
Dual-control concurrence
Disconnected HSM signing ceremony

M4d–e

RFC 3161 timestamped evidence vault
Signed registry & ledger checkpoints
Tenant-scoped read-only evidence API

Physical qualificationNVMe / ATA Sanitize bench runs incl. power loss & reset

Production armingsigned arming & release ceremony

Managed trustHSM, production TSA, WORM evidence store

Independent evaluationbefore any certification claims

Read the V2 development guide →

IRREVERSIBLE. THERE IS NO UNDO.

FastBorn is built to destroy data. Treat the stick like a loaded tool.

All internal disks are wiped on boot — auto mode has no confirmation prompt
Do not plug it into the wrong machine — you will lose everything
Boot USB is auto-excluded via removable=1 detection — still verify your setup
5-second window before erasure starts — Ctrl+C aborts

Build from source

Reproducible, in Docker.

terminal

Only Docker Desktop is required. The build produces a single hybrid ISO in output/fastborn.iso that boots on both legacy BIOS and UEFI machines, from USB or CD.

→Runs from RAM — target disks untouched during boot

→Parallel wipe of SATA, HDD and NVMe devices

→Per-disk JSON logs in /fastborn-logs/ on the stick

→5-second countdown, then automatic reboot