Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com): > I would think that writing zeros to the disk would make the data > unavailable in many cases and is relatively fast. IIRC, DBAN takes > multiple passes with pseudorandom data.
> What if the fact that a melted disk leaked information? Yeah, you go tell LLNL's Security Office that they don't know their business. Let us know how that works for you. > Personally, I would go one step further and use a pseudo random feed > from AES with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) and perhaps throw some salt > in the middle so that it isn't too predictable. Really, because data are so much better hidden by overengineered pseudorandom data than by, e.g., 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' over and over. Sure, that makes all kinds of sense. In some universe. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
