Hi Marc, Thanks for the follow-up. I did find some updated info from Peter Gutmann here: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epilogue
* * *ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Marc Maiffret <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a common misconfiguration of Peter Gutmann's work. His paper was > written a very long time ago and was correct for drives of the time. He has > since updated his paper to reflect the changes/differences in more modern > hard drives. I say this only because he is rightfully annoyed by guys like > this Brian Smithson saying stuff like "Blame Gutmann". > > Marc Maiffret > Founder/CTO > eEye Digital Security > BLOG: http://blog.eeye.com/author/mmaiffret/ > TWITTER: http://twitter.com/#!/marcmaiffret > WEB: http://www.eEye.com > > > > From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:01 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Interesting Article about secure hard disk overwrites > > > https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16130-The-Urban-Legend-of-Multipass-Hard-Disk-Overwrite.html > > This certainly bears some more investigation... > ASB > http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker > Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
