Re: [vox-tech] Secure Wiping hard drives
Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com): I would think that writing zeros to the disk would make the data unavailable in many cases and is relatively fast. IIRC, DBAN takes multiple passes with pseudorandom data. What if the fact that a melted disk leaked information? Yeah, you go tell LLNL's Security Office that they don't know their business. Let us know how that works for you. Personally, I would go one step further and use a pseudo random feed from AES with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) and perhaps throw some salt in the middle so that it isn't too predictable. Really, because data are so much better hidden by overengineered pseudorandom data than by, e.g., 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy' over and over. Sure, that makes all kinds of sense. In some universe. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] C++ problem
I'm working on a small C++ program. In one of the constructors I create a local pointer variable with double * var = new double [size] I later return the memory with delete [] var Immediately after the delete I find that some of the class's private variables have been over written. The variables are ok just before the call to delete. Does anyone have any ideas about this?? I'm running debian squeeze and the compiler is gcc 4.4.5 Also I did an apt-get upgrade this morning to pick up any fixes. Richard Harke ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] C++ problem
My last post seems to have gotten lost so I'll try again. I'm working on a small C++ program. In one of the constructors I create an array with double * var = new double [size] After use, before exiting the constructor I return the memory with delete [] var But after return from the delete, several private class variables are written over. I have checked that these variables are correct just before the delete call and are modified right after. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I'm running debian squeeze for amd64 with gcc 4.4.5 This morning I did an apt-get upgrade to be sure I had any recent fixes. Richard Harke ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
