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RE: patent of the day
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Korn)
Wed Jan 23 08:47:11 2008
From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Ali, Saqib'" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>,
"'Perry E. Metzger'" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:17:39 -0000
In-Reply-To: <addede3b0801222045x792cd91eu1bfde95977a78c45@mail.gmail.com>
On 23 January 2008 04:45, Ali, Saqib wrote:
> can anyone please shed more light on this patent. It seems like a
> patent on the simple process of cryptographic erase......
As far as I can tell, they're describing a hardware pass-through OTF
encryption unit that plugs inline with a hard drive (or similar) and contains
a secure and destroyable keystore.
cheers,
DaveK
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