Re: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
- From: "Link, Peter R." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:26:23 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Secure erase of SSD drives?
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More information from a quick web search. I didn't read any of them in depth so they might not say what the headline says.---
http://nvsl.ucsd.edu/index.php?path=projects/sanitize At the Non-volatile Systems Laboratory we have designed a procedure to bypass the flash translation layer (FTL) on SSDs and directly
access the raw NAND flash chips to audit the success of any given sanitization technique.
There were many more, me-to postings discussing the UCSD report. Here's the web site for one of the main researchers including a reference to his papers. http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/m3wei/
Start here, sp800_88_r1_draft.pdf and see what the recommended sanitization technique is. I also remember some articles discussing how SSDs work. I'll
try and find them.
As for returning media to the vendor, we (LLNL) have a purchasing agreement that says they don't get the drives back no matter what.
On Mar 19, 2013, at 7:39 AM, "Danziger, Alan D." < email@hidden> wrote: I'm not sure how helpful this is but my solution is to use FileVault 2 on the SSD. If it needs to be swapped out, I erase (remove the key), and all the data on the drive is (in theory, which I believe) irretrievable without "sufficiently
advanced technology (= magic)" Certainly sufficient for my personal data.
"This does not reflect my employer's policies or preferences."
-=Alan
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