R.S. wrote: 3. Regarding possibility rto read *valuable* information overwritten once: Such theoretical possibility assumes one use good microscope and watches single magnetic domain. There is no hidden HDD command like "read deleted info". And now: what is easier: decrypt encrypted content of play with 100000000000000000-element puzzle of domains?
The latter: you'll be recovering data incrementally starting with the first domain (well, first cluster of domains)-as opposed to brute-force decryption, where the universe is almost certainly dark before you have the first byte (although admittedly with decryption, once you have one byte, you have it all). ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
