English Explanatory Dictionary

Gutmann method

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An algorithm for securely erasing the contents of a hard drive by writing a number of different patterns over the existing data.

Word forms

Gutmann method

Etymology

Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb.

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