From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa529428387c8116 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-17 12:13:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crypting files with Ada Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:13:09 +0200 Organization: UNI-C Message-ID: <3D877EC5.1050602@nbi.dk> References: <3D874106.8020809@nbi.dk> <4519e058.0209171026.5e019010@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kaoslx07.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1032289989 29322 130.225.212.98 (17 Sep 2002 19:13:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:13:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Any Browser, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 X-Accept-Language: Faeroese [fo],Danish [da],Norweg.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29089 Date: 2002-09-17T21:13:09+02:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > Hmm...if you were to install Windows over it, then give the disk away, > that might do the trick. The user will certianly have to reinstall > Winodws 35 times in the next year or so. :-) That might be true, but you can not be certain that it is the correct sequence of patterns (includes six times random patterns IIRC) you get out of that. You would have to do it much more often, if it was a different collection of patterns. Jacob -- ACRONYM: A Contrived Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics