Peter_22@xxxxxx wrote: > Just today I saw "test disk" from http://www.cgsecurity.org/ while being > at work. I didn´t run it at home on my own disc but my question might be a > serious concern. As "test disk" is able to restore overwritten/shredded > (dev/urandom) or erased (dev/zero) partitions, how secure is encrypted > root as aespipe reads data from one partition, pipes it through aes and > writes it back to the same partition? Where does it say that it can recover overwritten sectors? Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > When you have overriden a sector there is NO WAY for SOFTWARE to get the > old contents(*). Uploading new customized DSP firmware to the disk controller may be able to recover earlier sector data. Data recovery companies doing that probably have to sign very restrictive non-disclosure agreements to get firmware sources from disk manufacturers. Distributing such sources under GPL... no chance. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
