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		phamilton on Dec 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Private Key Necromancy Many SSDs do on the fly AES encryption. Secure wipe is then just a destruction of the private key. All the encrypted data stays put.

venomsnake on Dec 18, 2013 [–]

Since when there is private key in AES? And that requires a paranoid person to trust that a company does not holds the keys in escrows somewhere or are by any way retrievable.

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