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Re:Show HN: Puree – Password-based Uniform-Random-Equivalent... by akkishore on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:04PM (#23449244)
From the white paper: "If additional shadow headers are used, their suggested locations are (where possible) at the sectors starting at offsets 128MiB, 128GiB, and 128TiB"

Is such repetition of header (in a supposedly random-wiped disk) not suggestive of existence of a PUREE partition? This can be figured by scanning the entire disk.

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Re:Show HN: Puree – Password-based Uniform-Random-Equivalent... by notfed on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:14PM (#23449333)
Each header is individually encrypted with a different salt/nonce, so there won't be any detectable repetition.
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