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Re: Gutmann's research paper today


From: Thomas <tom () electric-sheep org>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:48:49 +0100


One place where "random scrubbing" falls down is the requirement to
*verify* that the blocks were written.

use the PRNG seed you used for overwriting for verifying too.

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Tom <tom () electric-sheep org>
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