I had several people cost justify hard disk encryption based on this. If
you are encrypting the entire partition all you have to do is disable
the users on that disk and the disk is left as a 256-bit AES bundle of
bits.

Regards;

Bryan

Bryan Glancey
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Vertie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Data erasing tool

Hey there,

I know this is a little off-post, but you said you wanted to destroy
hdds 
that were not going to be used anymore so...

I've heard the eraser arguement probably as many times as you've
probably 
heard it...there was a thread on extremetech that went on for pages and 
pages..saying that no erasers work..I got so sick of hearing all the 
theory..the only useful information that I ever derived was that..if you

really wanted to get rid of all the data on the hard disk, consider 
degaussing the hard drives (magnetically) or do what the government
does..Do 
a 7x NSA spec overwrite (I think that is the spec, somebody correct me
if it 
isn't), and then shred the drive into pieces.

There are other ways, but these are the only ones that sound reasonable
and 
safe sounding to me (safe as in..your data is destroyed for sure)..

There are plenty more soutions that you will hear from other people on 
this..just hope you make a good selection :)

David







>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Data erasing tool
>Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 08:31:01 -0400
>
>We are looking for a tool that will erase all data beyond recovery from
a
>hard drive. We going to get rid of few computers and do not want data
to 
>get
>into anyone's hand. Both freeware and commercial ware are ok. Would
prefer 
>a
>solution which is bootable from a cd (OS independent).
>
>(Would prefer not getting answers like all erasers work but none work.
Been
>through that with my last posting)
>
>       SKP
>
>
>
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