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Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Moen)
Wed Oct 8 17:08:55 2003
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From: "Doug Moen" <doug.moen@bluecoat.com>
To: "Rick Wash" <rwash@citi.umich.edu>,
"Nicholas Weaver" <nweaver@CS.berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Alun Jones" <alun@texis.com>, "'Wojciech Purczynski'" <cliph@isec.pl>,
"'Michal Zalewski'" <lcamtuf@coredump.cx>, <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>,
<secpapers@securityfocus.com>, <vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org>,
<vulndiscuss@vulnwatch.org>, <full-disclosure@netsys.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:10:40 -0400
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From: "Rick Wash" <rwash@citi.umich.edu>
> This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is
> easy to delete large amounts of data quickly. Imagine you hear the feds
> knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light
> (aka your data) fly out into the room. Your data is gone, permanently.
> If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete
everything
> -- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations. Show me another
> method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
> that quickly.
A ramdisk.
Doug Moen.
