[Cryptography] Data remanence on solid state storage

[Kent Borg]

On 8/16/24 16:06, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> The
> good manufacturers implement secure erase by simple changing the encryption
> key making all the data unreadable.

Bad news: Hard to know what is going on inside the solid state storage, 
maybe they erase securely, maybe they don't.

Good news: One can run an encrypted file system on top of the storage 
and then you get to change your key when you want to.

-kb
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