Re: Shredding a removable drive (OT)

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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.
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