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Old 03-01-2008, 04:50 PM
Rick Merrill
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Default Re: How many overwrites for secure erase?

bealoid wrote:
> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
> news:62qjtgF2484t3U3@mid.dfncis.de:
>
>> bealoid wrote:
>>
>>> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
>>> news:62q4cpF2486s5U1@mid.dfncis.de:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> This is nothing special though, even Peter Gutmann mentions much
>>>> more potent ways like magnetic force scanning tunneling microscopy.
>>> and even gutmann says that no longer works and that 3 random
>>> overwrites is about as good as you can do.

>>
>> And even I wrote that one overwrite is enough, but this doesn't change
>> the result that such techniques allow to retrieve information
>> statistically significantly better than random guessing. If the high
>> level data are encoded with redundancy as well, this might be a
>> problem.

>
> I'd be keen to see any cites for people actually doing this.


Langley does not provide citations ;-)


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