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Re: Emergency File Wipe Algorithim

To: Black Unicorn <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Emergency File Wipe Algorithim
From: Christian Wettergren <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 15:17:09 -0700
Cc: Anonymous <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 04 Sep 1995 17:35:07 EDT. <[email protected]>
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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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