There might have been too much alcohol involved in the conversation to
consider it production Ready 🤣



On Mon., Mar. 25, 2024, 09:47 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <talk@gtalug.org>
wrote:

> | From: David Thornton via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
>
> | I grilled my local hardware security friend who said you should never
> trust
> | the secure delete feature in ssd . In general it has been found insecure.
>
> It seems hard to accidentally screw up Secure Delete:
>
> - everything written to the flash layer is encode
> - everything read from the flash layer is decoded
> - secure erase simply changes the key
>
> It is fairly easy to intentionally screw up Secure Delete.
> Trusting Secure Delete involves trusting the manufacturer:
> there is no sure way to test for this failing.
>
> Does your guy have examples or even indications of Secure Delete failing?
> In particular, what does "In general it has been found insecure." mean?
> What has been found?  How has it been found?
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