Emergency File Wipe Algorithim

Christian Wettergren cwe at Csli.Stanford.EDU
Mon Sep 4 15:17:31 PDT 1995



Anon writes>
> When a running computer is seized in some sort of law enforcement
> raid, what are the chances someone would think to backup the
> contents of a RAMDISK drive prior to powering it down?

Also note the recent posting on sci.crypt by Peter Gutmann about being
able to recover data from DRAMs and SRAMs after powerdown. It hits
cryptokeys really bad. 

I suppose this is really academic at the current stage, but that might
change.

/Christian






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