Wipe reports

Wipes (/wipes) is the ledger of every wipe your kiosks have reported — one row per drive, per wipe, with its outcome and its certificate. Because every certificate hangs off a wipe result, this page is also the certificate listing: there is no separate certificates index.

The wipes grid

A spreadsheet-style grid, paginated at 100 rows per page, newest first. Columns:

ColumnContents
VendorDerived from the drive model string
ModelThe drive model
SerialThe drive serial number
Capacitye.g. "512 GB"
Media TypeSSD or HDD, read from the matched machine's fingerprint
MethodThe wipe method, e.g. NIST 800-88 R2 Purge
SourceThe machine the drive was in (see below)
Duratione.g. "1h 12m"
StatusOutcome badge (see below)
TechnicianThe operator
CompletedCompletion time
CertificateThe certificate state (see below)

Status badges

Wipe statusBadge
completedPass (green)
failedFail (red)
anything elseThe status, titleized, in grey

A wipe with no recorded status is a legacy record and reads as completed — it shows Pass.

Source machine matching

The Source column ties a drive back to the machine it was wiped in, by matching the drive's serial number against the storage serials of the machines in your inventory. A match renders as a link that opens that asset's drawer. Wipes performed on a hotswap station show the label "Hotswap" instead — the drive was in a bay, not inside a fingerprinted machine. An unmatched drive shows "—".

The Certificate column

Each row's Certificate cell tells you exactly where its certificate stands:

  • Issued — a link labelled with the certificate number, e.g. CW-000123, which opens the Certificate of Sanitization in a new tab, alongside a link to the same wipe's Erasure Report.
  • In progress or failed — a badge: Pending, Generating, Complete, or Failed.
  • Not certifiable — muted text "Not issued", with the tooltip "Certificates are only issued for successful, verified wipes".

Only successful, verified wipes certify. A wipe that failed, or whose validation flagged it for review, stays on this page as evidence but never gets a certificate.

Downloading a certificate

Every certified wipe has two documents: the one-page Certificate of Sanitization and the fuller Erasure Report, generated together under one certificate number. The CW-… link points at GET /certificates/:id for the certificate, and GET /certificates/:id?document=report fetches the report. Each responds with a 302 redirect to a presigned URL for the PDF, valid for five minutes. Certificate PDFs are stored privately — the presigned redirect is the only way to fetch one, and it requires being signed in to the owning account. If the PDF isn't ready yet you're redirected back with "Certificate is still generating."

Anyone — no account required — can check a certificate's authenticity at the public verify endpoint:

curl https://averase.com/certificates/{id}/verify

Response

{
  "valid": true,
  "certificate_number": "CW-000241",
  "account": "MAESON Technologies LLC",
  "drive_serial": "S6MZNF1WA04527",
  "drive_model": "SAMSUNG MZVL2512HCJQ",
  "drive_capacity_gb": 512,
  "wipe_method": "NIST 800-88 R2 Purge",
  "passes_completed": 1,
  "completed_at": "2026-08-01T14:22:07Z",
  "signed_at": "2026-08-01T14:22:09Z"
}

See Certificates for how certificates are generated and signed, and Certificate verification for the full endpoint reference.

Sorting

The Sort menu offers a fixed list of whole-table reorders:

  • Ascending / Descending by Completed
  • A→Z / Z→A by Model
  • Capacity, high→low
  • Duration, long→short
  • Status, A→Z

As on Inventory, search, filter, and sort operate client-side within the loaded page of 100 rows, and Push sends selected rows (reading e.g. "1 Wipe") to a connected integration.

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