[Cryptography] Rubber-hose resistance?

[Jerry Leichter]

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>> Of course this is mostly moot with the rise of SSDs, which, as others have pointed out, are hard to erase with any certainty. 
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> You guys all seem to be ignoring Secure Erase. Any particular reason?
> https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/secure-erase-certified-intel-ssd/
Only available on some high-end Intel SSD's, and the software to talk to the drive to trigger it is available only on Windows.  It does appear to be based on a standard ATA (but not SCSI) command, so others could implement the command (in the hardware) or access to the command (in the software).

Nice to see this is out there, but it's going to have to be much more widely available before it makes much of a dent.
                                                        -- Jerry