[Cryptography] [Crypto-practicum] Secure erasure in C.

[Kent Borg]

On 09/08/2016 02:49 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
> So you can assume that every flash memory is also compromised, and 
> will look for (and squirrel away) interesting data for later 
> exfiltration. 

Along with the CPU and the network and ...

> Include *Flint* (as in Derek Flint; Google it!) in your list of attackers, along with Eve, etc.

Our Man Flint! I am so old I remember the movie. But I don't immediately 
spot the flash connection.

I guess I still like the overwrite with random (-ish) data. If you had 
reason to trust that buffer in the first place, why not trust it to 
accept the overwritten data? Seems a way to get the compiler to do what 
it is told: tell it something complicated.

-kb