[ale] A little math

[Jim Kinney]

Can't recall the link but some fed agency nist maybe, had huge random
datafiles for download. Urandom runs dry quick doing a drive wipe.

On Feb 10, 2010 2:03 PM, "Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just going by people recommendations in setting up a LUKS volume.
> They all agree to do the u...
Ah, that's different.  I assume they want random data so an attacker
can't differentiate encrypted data from empty space by a entropy test.

You are at the mercy of /dev/urandom and your cpu power.


Greg
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