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Re: Declassification of disks and DEC

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From: Rodent of Unusual Size
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:21
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In article <1992Jul21.174506.25517@rayssd.ssd.ray.com>, m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com (Barone) writes...
>
    [description of the misbehaviour of the "Enhanced HSC Format Utility",
    part number QA-926AB-H7, deleted]
> 
>Talks with the SDI Controller Software Supervisor indicate that this
>is a feature and the formatter does conform with the 1989 Industrial
>Security Manual.  Unfortunately, this manual has been superseded by
>the Government Declassification Specification of 1990.
> 
>It seems to me that to change the formatter to write the specified
>pattern rather than zeros should be straightforward and easy but I
>had the impression that nothing would be done.

    I have forwarded this complaint to someone I know in Digital security
    marketing.  Hopefully, he will be able to push the right buttons to get
    this issue re-opened.  FWIW, my personal opinion is the same as yours -
    not only is it not doing the Right Thing, but it's not even functioning as
    documented (modulo your description of the documentation, with which I
    have no argument).

>Joe Barone
>m1b@rayssd.ssd.ray.com

    #ken    :-)}	Jeratol the Chaotic

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From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
Subject: Re: Declassification of disks and DEC
Message-ID: <1992Jul22.112730.23006@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Summary: Complaint forwarded to Digital security marketing
Keywords: HSC, DIS, disk reformatting
Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
Organisation: Employed by (*NOT* speaker for) DEC, Boxborough, MA, U.S.A.
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:21:26 GMT
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