From: Matt Phillips (phil2919uidaho.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 02 2005 - 05:36:09 CDT

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The OP is donating old hard disks and wants to ensure his data is
non-recoverable. Why in the hell would he encrypt the disk before
giving it away? You and the next are way off topic. Someone stick a
fork in this thread; I think it's done.

- Matt

Baldur Sigurpsson wrote:

> Ed White wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
>> delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
>> automagically ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
> Can't you just have the hole partition encrypted, I've never actually
> encountered information about how to do it on OBDS, but the NetBSD
> guide explains how to do it in details. That way nobody will be able
> to unencrypt it unless he has the password, right?
>
> But then again, they might try some nasty tricks on you to get the
> password..., but hopefully not ;)
>
> Regards, Baldur

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