| ▲ | jshier 4 days ago |
| Apple's SSDs are all encrypted at the controller nowadays. No need to rewrite, just reformat and it cycles the key, leaving any recoverable data irrevocably encrypted (until we break modern encryption). |
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| ▲ | burnerthrow008 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| I thought all SSDs did that for wear-leveling purposes. |
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| ▲ | johncolanduoni 3 days ago | parent [-] | | They do, but consumer ones usually don't implement the additional API (TCG Opal) that lets you lock/unlock the hardware encryption key. Without that capability you can't use it to implement full-disk encryption. They do usually implement the NVMe secure erase feature though, which will rotate it. |
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