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• n  (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position

• low-level formatting
• initialization

Quotes

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• Phil Zimmermann in Techworld.com
  Stream ciphers have to be used most carefully. Any failure to do this will result in a disastrous loss of security,Zimmermann said. "Even with a properly chosen initialisation vector, you have to run RC4 for a while before the quality of...