full-disclosure - Gutmann's research paper today

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Date: Tue Feb  7 16:43:15 2006
From: frank at knobbe.us (Frank Knobbe)
Subject: Gutmann's research paper today

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 08:24 -0800, Mike Owen wrote:
> Funny, that's how my backups always end up working as well. 'cat
> /dev/urandom > /dev/tape'

:)

No, actually the backup is more like  tar ...|openssl ...|dd ...|
tee /dev/nsa0 |md5 

But yeah, for the disk, you're right:
  dd if=/dev/urandom | tee /dev/ad2 | md5
Then:
  dd if=/dev/ad2 | md5  
and compare. 

Cheers,
Frank

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