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 11:26:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crypting files with Ada Date: 17 Sep 2002 11:26:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0209171026.5e019010@posting.google.com> References: <3D874106.8020809@nbi.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1032287192 12924 127.0.0.1 (17 Sep 2002 18:26:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Sep 2002 18:26:32 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29087 Date: 2002-09-17T18:26:32+00:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message news:<3D874106.8020809@nbi.dk>... > This would not necessarily be enough. According to a paper > by Peter Gutmann, you ought to overwrite the file 35 times 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. :-) (ducks and runs)