Secure Erasing is actually harder than that...

[Sampo Syreeni]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ray Dillinger wrote:

>We need editors that don't put cleartext on the disk when you
>hit the "save" command.

Why not simply use encrypted hard drives? Make the driver forget key
material in a fixed period of keyboard inactivity? This would be a helluva
lot easier than making secure versions of every existing application out
there...

Sampo Syreeni <decoy at iki.fi>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university