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Re: [Full-disclosure] Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

From: <Valdis.Kletnieks_at_nospam>
Date: Mon Jan 25 2010 - 21:49:43 GMT
To: Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam@gmail.com>

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:44:23 +0545, Bipin Gautam said:
> Ok, then why not encode the same keywords that these TOOLS look for
> with your Markov chains idea and mix it to wipe a 1 TB hdd with alice
> chatter-bot idea ?
>
> Again this is all theory :P

You still haven't explained how this has any advantages over using an encrypted filesystem and wiping space with all-zeros.

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