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Article #3831Erasing magnetic media
From: Mike Rutenberg
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1987 23:17
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1987 23:17
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I remember seeing a file of constants on a VMS system that said that it conformed to some federal standards for erasing data on disks. Namely, you had to write over the data you wanted to destroy with something like: 10101... 01010... 00000... 11111... Does anyone know about this standard? Any idea of the technical issues that were addressed during the creation of the standard? Please send me mail as this isn't exactly crypto stuff - More of system security. Mike -- Reed College -- Portland, Oregon -- 503/775-7003 (before 9am)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!reed!mdr From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Erasing magnetic media Message-ID: <7566@reed.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 18:17:40 EST Article-I.D.: reed.7566 Posted: Tue Oct 27 18:17:40 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 06:01:20 EST Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 18 Keywords: Disks, Patterns