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From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Erasing magnetic media
Message-ID: <7566@reed.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 18:17:40 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.7566
Posted: Tue Oct 27 18:17:40 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 06:01:20 EST
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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Keywords: Disks, Patterns

I remember seeing a file of constants on a VMS system that said that
it conformed to some federal standards for erasing data on disks.
Namely, you had to write over the data you wanted to destroy with
something like:
	10101...
	01010...
	00000...
	11111...

Does anyone know about this standard?  Any idea of the technical issues
that were addressed during the creation of the standard?

Please send me mail as this isn't exactly crypto stuff - More of system
security.

Mike
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