[118279] in Cypherpunks
Re: Steganos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Limpert)
Thu Sep 23 23:49:29 1999
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 23:15:06 -0400
From: "John A. Limpert" <johnl@radix.net>
To: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@lightside.dhis.org>,
Jeff T Gordon <someone@somewhere.net>
CC: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>,
Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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I thought that only applied to old hard drives that used open loop, stepper
motor positioners. Don't all modern hard drives use closed loop, embedded
servo, voice coil positioners?
I remember having to wait for drive temperature stabilization before low
level formatting some of the original Maxtor SCSI drives.
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>From: Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@lightside.dhis.org>
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 11:12:12PM -0000, Jeff T Gordon wrote:
>> 3.encrypt each set of doc's sepratly useing differnt keys
>> 4.Wipe original file with 23 passes
>
> You will have more success wiping out files if the HD temperature at which
> your write and the temperature at which you wipe are similar [0]
>
> [0] Obviously temperature at boot time and post boot time arent similar.
