From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 17:02:44 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Erasing Disks, was Re: What the NSA is patenting
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See Peter Gutmann's paper, "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and
Solid-State Memory" in The Sixth USENIX Security Symposium Proceedings.

My feeling after hearing his paper was that the only thing I would trust
was thermite.


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