Interesting article - thanks for passing it along. I'm assuming that the
Gutmann that wrote it is the same one the "Gutmann Wipe' in DBAN is named
for. I guess they didn't get the memo either, since the last time I
checked the "autonuke" option in DBAN defaulted to a multi-pass wipe :)
Thanks!
-Lee
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 03:29 PM, Lee S. Whatley wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> > But (most of) the devices still work. I'm just trying to consolidate...
>>
>> If *you* are still planning to use the drives then you don't need to
>> wipe them, just do a mkfs on top of the old stuff.
>>
>
> That's pretty obvious...
>
>> If you are planning on selling them or giving them away, then a 1 pass
>> wipe isn't really protecting your data from anything...you're gonna need
>> to spend waay more than 3 hours to do a "secure" wipe ;)
>
> And that's a myth.
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epilogue
>
> Read the further epilogue: '"A good scrubbing with random data will do about
> as well as can be expected". This was true in 1996, and is still true now.'
>
> So, a single pass writing random data is all that's necessary.
>
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