[Cryptography] Secure erasure

[Peter Gutmann]

Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> writes:

>By WWI, people had pretty much given up on armor,

It was still used in specialised circumstances.  German snipers and, more
generally, troops in exposed positions, wore what's close to a medieval set of
armour known as a Sappeurpanzer (body armour) and Sappeurhelm (helmet).
There's not much online about it but one example is at:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappeurhelm

Also the vent lugs on the original M16/M18 helmet could have additional armour
plates attached to them, the Stirnpanzer:

http://forum.axishistory.com/download/file.php?id=21683

Then there's (non-official) stuff like this, showing 19 bullet impacts:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/03_02/BodyArmour2PA_468x711.jpg

but that predates WWI by a bit.

Peter.