-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Mark Rosen wrote:

Does anyone know any papers on secure deletion of things from memory? That is one thing that most people are oblivious to, though, if a program leaves your unencrypted passkey laying in memory or a buffer of your plaintext, then all the encryption in the world won't help. Should I overwrite the 32 times specified for hard drives, or are RAM chips easier to clear? Thanks.

1 time _should_ work for RAM chips, AFAIK. --Deviant PGP KeyID = E820F015 Fingerprint = 3D6AAB628E3DFAA9 F7D35736ABC56D39 Live long and prosper. -- Spock, "Amok Time", stardate 3372.7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMqI5wzCdEh3oIPAVAQGE5wf7BbOXQv13u/JS/nByogiN7ukaoiejZdyl 1Mq+Dxpe6mJvUPR72n5ygeQ8kKMP9nV5s6A9dm32qXDIYE/uzrEt+RLZbxtt0eMV 1uwxjVcxJdBvMgeFhxvblT1AhDNdvBHO3ELgPnU3T+DnUJOTPCb/ychsQ98YdYPQ gp0/nyJK9kCQPRPjZNvR8qP3RV9xd03KMBjwMJIfNw+RDfTtlQEEjhD9P6zSt4ky spPL4ccKrM8mGS67g5mLW14V+mbn4qM3gmfS6f6VbkP0DovAIBxCzDbBACvkexOy SRPCvvxL/2XiZ6NkGy844LFhJqlMMQWEUF+YrQykgBS9ST5uePquew== =GGrT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----