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Thank you Rukbat. I have some feedback and/or questions on a few points inline... I was referring to the FDE in Android and the fact that the researchers found that the footer is not overwritten during a reset and therefore can be subjected to offline brute force attacks. So, I'm not sure what...

In the paper I referenced, the researchers had the following findings regarding your points. They *can* work but have some limitations: "Full-disk encryption has the potential to mitigate the problem, but we found that [the] flawed Factory Reset leaves behind enough data for the...

I'm writing after reading the paper "Security Analysis of Factory Resets" (fr_most15.pdf by Simon & Anderson), in which Android factory reset through 4.3.x has been revealed to basically be a joke. In light of this fact, I'm looking to come up with the simplest, secure process to follow for...

Hello, I've found your thread while searching for secure wipe/reset procedures. In the paper "Security Analysis of Android Factory Resets" by Simon and Anderson, they note that this bit-by-bit overwrite method does not achieve "digital sanitization" because flash memory is over-provisioned...