Re: Possibility for safe Luks partition delete functionality

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 20:18:16 CET, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 11.12.2013, Heinz Diehl wrote: 
> 
> > You can do that easily by running dd against the first MB's of the
> > respective partition..
> 
> I forgot: you can just switch off the power, which will surely be
> much faster than wiping the LUKS header.

Ah, no? Unless you have it in a RAM-disk? If you power off,
the device is not mapped anymore, but the header is there.
Wit things like rubber-hise cryptoanalysis, you can still get
at it. If the header is wiped, that becomes impossible.

Arno
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