Bugtraq: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

[Adeel Hussain <ad33lh () hotmail com>]

In-Reply-To: <75a101c38dd8$40064170$1200a70a () watdougmoen>

Show me another
> > method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
> > that quickly.
> A ramdisk.
>
> Doug Moen.
Section 7 of Peter Gutman's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" touches on the fact 
that data can be retreived from RAM with varying degrees of success.

Corrections are always welcomed.

Paper available at:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/