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For all anyone can prove, its random data. What are they going to do next time I safely erase a file? Throw me in jail for contempt because I can't magically tu
by revelation 15y ago
For all anyone can prove, its random data. What are they going to do next time I safely erase a file? Throw me in jail for contempt because I can't magically turn the random data into incriminating evidence?
- Arelius 15y agoThe decrypted data could be random, but afaik, encrypted data does have patterns that are evident of encrypted data.
- keeperofdakeys 15y agoUsually this is only in the form of a header on the block device. Dm-crypt on linux has a mode called 'plain'. This uses the sector number and passphrase/keyfile to generate a unique encryption key for each sector. This means there is no meta-data, and corruption of any physical sectors map directly to the unencrypted block device. In this case, it does look just like random data.