full-disclosure - Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:49:43 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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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