Questions tagged [cryptographic-erase]

It's generally accepted that SSDs cannot be securely wiped by writing patterns to the drive, due to features such as wear leveling and over-provisioning, and that the most secure way to wipe a modern SSD is using the ATA Secure Erase firmware…

I have a Samsung 960 EVO from 2016ish (I think) and a year or so ago I built a new computer. I bought a 2 TB SSD, so I wasn't too interested in my 512 GB. The drive was encrypted with BitLocker using the SSD encryption. Everything worked fine. Fast…

When I use Parted Magic to secure erase an SSD I get two options. Secure Erase ATA Device Sanitize While I have searched the net, I still do not understand the exact technical different between the two as a layman. This is extract from say Sandisk…

I recently purchased a Crucial MX300 to use as a boot drive, and I want to take advantage of its self encrypting functionality. I've been reading up on SEDs and I understand they use a Data Encryption Key or DEK (sometimes called a Media Encryption…