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Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage


From: Adeel Hussain <ad33lh () hotmail com>
Date: 9 Oct 2003 12:38:59 -0000

In-Reply-To: <75a101c38dd8$40064170$1200a70a@watdougmoen>

Show me another
method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
that quickly.

A ramdisk.

Doug Moen.



Section 7 of Peter Gutman's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" touches on the fact 
that data can be retreived from RAM with varying degrees of success.

Corrections are always welcomed.

Paper available at:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/


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