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2024
Gutmann_method
Gutmann method
English
Noun
Gutmann
method
(
plural not attested
)
(
computing
)
An
algorithm
for
securely
erasing
the contents of a
hard drive
by writing a number of different
patterns
over the existing data.
Etymology
Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb.
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