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Message-ID: <75a101c38dd8$40064170$1200a70a@watdougmoen>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:10:40 -0400
From: "Doug Moen" <doug.moen@...ecoat.com>
To: "Rick Wash" <rwash@...i.umich.edu>,
	"Nicholas Weaver" <nweaver@...berkeley.edu>
Cc: "Alun Jones" <alun@...is.com>,
	"'Wojciech Purczynski'" <cliph@...c.pl>,
	"'Michal Zalewski'" <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>,
	<bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>, <secpapers@...urityfocus.com>,
	<vulnwatch@...nwatch.org>, <vulndiscuss@...nwatch.org>,
	<full-disclosure@...sys.com>
Subject: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage


From: "Rick Wash" <rwash@...i.umich.edu>
> This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is
> easy to delete large amounts of data quickly.   Imagine you hear the feds
> knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light
> (aka your data) fly out into the room.   Your data is gone, permanently.
> If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete
everything
> -- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations.   Show me another
> method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
> that quickly.

A ramdisk.

Doug Moen.



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