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RE: encrypting swap



> The problem with this method is that with suitable equipment, 
> reading a drive wiped in this way is pretty easy.

Oops. Sounds interesting, but kind of disturbing as well. I can
only guess. If you perform the magnetisation representing the zero 
(say), is there still a remainder of the old magnetisation (kind of
corona around the new bit) that can be detected?

Thomas.

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