On 22/08/13 07:45, Antony Bailey wrote:
On 22 Aug 2013 01:05, "Sebastian Arcus" <s...@open-t.co.uk <mailto:s...@open-t.co.uk>> wrote: > > On 21/08/13 19:18, Antony Bailey wrote: >> >> Sounds good. >> >> I'm thinking that I will talk about public / private key cryptography >> which covers PGP, DRM and Bitcoin. >> >> I'll do disc encryption. So true crypt vs others. >> >> I'll do point to point encrypted phone calls along with examples for >> modern phones both mobile and land line. Including PBX for home. >> >> Obviously all the encryption you use is just as strong as your will to >> keep your data secure. I won't link to the xkcd, but I'm sure you know >> the example. So I'll do plausible deniability along with clandestine >> intrusion by shall we say nation states. >> >> Data destruction also. This talk is also known as Guttman thinks 35 >> passes is just going to kill a drive too. If I had the cash to hand I'd >> get some drives of eBay and show you how to see strangers' holiday snaps. >> > > I can provide few spare 3.5" drives - but I'm curious if there will be anything to find on them after they've been through DBAN? > > Depends how it was run. Number of passes and entropy. I'll give them a go if you like.
That would be really interesting. One reads about the need to run DBAN several times - but I often wondered how much of a difference does it make in real life (if an attacker doesn't have access to fancy magnetic field/tunnel type tools, that is).
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