Re:Amazon S3 will now encrypt all new data with AES-256 by d...
by spullara on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:31PM
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I don't believe that AWS sells its retired equipment, at least I could find no evidence for it and thus I think the likelyhood that someone gets a hold of an unwiped/unshredded SSD from them to be exceedingly low.
I am surprised that drive manufacturers haven't built in encryption at rest though since it would be pretty easy to generate a key on first boot and then make it easy to wipe by just making a new key and thus essentially scrambling all the data on the disk instantly without having to wipe them at all.
I am surprised that drive manufacturers haven't built in encryption at rest though since it would be pretty easy to generate a key on first boot and then make it easy to wipe by just making a new key and thus essentially scrambling all the data on the disk instantly without having to wipe them at all.