📅 Original date posted:2011-07-16
🗒️ Summary of this message: Luke-Jr suggests overwriting old wallet.dat with random data to secure-delete it. Arthur suggests writing zeros once is sufficient.
📝 Original message:On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> Just wanted to get these suggestions out here:
> 1. Write over the old, unencrypted wallet.dat a couple of times with
> pseudo-
> random data in an attempt to secure-delete it.
>
Writing zeros just once should be sufficient:
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/DataSanitizationTutorial.pdf
-Arthur
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Arthur Britto [ARCHIVE] /
npub1zw…76ahu
2023-06-07 02:05:43
in reply to nevent1q…ex63
Author Public Key
npub1zwqjevtyx2gsgvu6my8zuaumq809qmmss7r8vpd48k3xrttys5qqs76ahuSeen on
wss://relay.nostr.bandPublished at
2023-06-07 02:05:43Event JSON
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