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Re: Flash Memory Wiping


From: Dragos Ruiu <dr () eusecwest com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:30:23 -0800

On Monday 22 January 2007 12:55, C Anctil wrote:
I would encrypt the the files before deleting them. If they ever get
recovered, they would at least be encrypted. I would use something
like truecrypt.

This also would not work so well on flash, as you would likely wind up
with encrypted and unecrypted versions sitting on the flash simultaneously.
Overwriting works oddly with flash... 

cheers,
--dr

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