Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)
On 20190127 14:44:52, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sun, 2019-01-27 at 19:56 +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Given that encrypting the disk means (at a minimum) reading the entire
>> contents and rewriting it,
>
> No. I don't think data is written and rewritten. See below.
If it's not being read and rewritten, it's not being encrypted. It's as
simple as that. A cryptosystem that doesn't read the plaintext? How
does that work?
poc
Give me an image if the disk and after suitable time and effort I have access to
the whole thing if only the directory entries are encrypted. So the tool in
question gives a false sense of security at best.
{^_^}