--- Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu> wrote:

AFIK, there is no data remanence problem with DRAM

Not apparently. I sent one of these links earlier in this thread IIRC. These papers are by Peter Gutman himself. "7. Methods of Recovery for Data stored in Random-Access Memory" "8. Erasure of Data stored in Random-Access Memory" http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html Data Remanence in Semiconductor Devices -- all 19 pages http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/usenix01.pdf It's been a few years since I've read these articles personally. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]