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Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An algorithm for securely erasing the contents of a hard drive by writing a number of different patterns over the existing data. Full definition →
Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.