[interesting] Database Encryption

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/22/03 3:00 PM, Robert Brenstein at rjb at rz.uni-potsdam.de wrote:

> Further, I am not sure whether you want to wait until version 2 to
> resolve this. You would not want to get into a scandal like Microsoft
> exposing inappropriate content within Word files. Theoretically, we
> should explicitely nullify all records/fields that we delete in such
> a database, but in practice we may rely on automatic deletion or
> simply forget to do it.

Btw, MacOS X and I assume Linux even do not allow get into such trap.

When on X I allocate segment of disk, OS already returns me it zeroed.
So that could be considered as security hole as of Word so Windows itself.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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