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Does anyone know any papers on secure deletion of things from memory? That is one thing that most people are oblivious to, though, if a program leaves your unencrypted passkey laying in memory or a buffer of your plaintext, then all the encryption in the world won't help. Should I overwrite the 32 times specified for hard drives, or are RAM chips easier to clear? Thanks.
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On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Mark Rosen wrote:
> Does anyone know any papers on secure deletion of things from memory? That
> is one thing that most people are oblivious to, though, if a program leaves
> your unencrypted passkey laying in memory or a buffer of your plaintext,
> then all the encryption in the world won't help. Should I overwrite the 32
> times specified for hard drives, or are RAM chips easier to clear? Thanks.
1 time _should_ work for RAM chips, AFAIK.
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