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Article #90Re: Declassification of disks and DEC
From: Rodent of Unusual Size
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:21
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 Unfortunately, this manual has been superseded by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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!news!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com!coar 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. Distribution: comp Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:21:26 GMT Lines: 31