26 Jan
2019
26 Jan
'19
2:58 p.m.
On Sat, 2019-01-26 at 20:01 +0000, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 20:24 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, other than smashing the drives to bits?
The quickest would be to encrypt the drives from the beginning. When you want to discard the drives, you just need to wipe the LUKS header. With the key wiped out, the rest of the drive is just random bits.
This, 100 times over!
Undoubtedly, *if* the drive was previously encrypted. Nothing the OP has says indicates this is the case, and encrypting it now is not going to be faster than trashing it.
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