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		JackSlateur on June 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anywa... How do you "wipe the disk" ? Serious question: is there a sane, working, single solution to ensure that ? Flash-based devices are so complicated (versus the old rusty devices) Anyway, this sound exhausting

CiPHPerCoder on June 4, 2024 [–]

If you're using a secure disk encryption technology, and you manage to clear the keys from the TPM or overwrite the header containing the KDF salts and other metadata, that should render the device data unrecoverable.

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