Does "I securely erased my drive" really work with Truecrypt partitions?
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Published on 2011-06-26T16:15:26Z
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When you look at Truecrypt's Plausible Deniability page it says that one of the reasons for partition with solely random data is that you securely erased your drive. But what about the partition table with full disk encryption?
How can you explain why the partition table says there's a partition of unknown type (With my limited knowledge of partition tables I think that they store all the partition filesystem types) and with solely random data? It seems that if your going to securely erase the drive you would destroy everything, including the partition table. And even if you just wiped the partition, the partition table would still say that the partition was originally NTFS, which it isn't anymore.
Does the "I securely erased my drive" excuse still work here?
(Note: I know that there's hidden truecrypt volumes, but I'm avoiding them due to the high risk of data loss)
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