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To the point that more recent hard drives already come with hardware encryption enabled, and the secure erase/sanitize command can finish in mere seconds, becau
by rzzzt 10y ago
To the point that more recent hard drives already come with hardware encryption enabled, and the secure erase/sanitize command can finish in mere seconds, because it only needs to throw away the existing key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encryption#Disk_sanitization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encry...
- fulafel 10y agoThat requires you to trust the disk to implement many finicky crypto details correctly in its proprietary black box, you can't get any assurance about that with reasonable cost. And SSDs have a horrible track record in the area, manyimplementing SECURE ERASE so it leaves your data on the flash chips. And if you choose a disk model, make your investigations and find it passes your sniff test, disks are no longer a commodity part for you.