This paper has three goals. (1) We try to debunk several held misconceptions about secure deletion: that encryption is an ideal solution for everybody, that existing data-overwrit...
Files or even their names often contain confidential or secret information. Most users believe that such information is erased as soon as they delete a file. Even those who know...
The cost of data storage is now so low that there is little necessity ever to delete anything. The consequence is denied oblivion—digital systems that remember forever and can b...
The goal of incremental cryptography is to design cryptographic algorithms with the property that having applied the algorithm to a document, it is possible to quickly update the ...