[ale] little math

[Brian Pitts]

On 02/12/2010 06:40 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
>> All I was saying is that the goal is to hide genuine encrypted
>> data in an ocean of random data, so as to make an attack more difficult.
> 
> I don't think that was the OPs original goal (but I'm too lazy to try
> and find his original email).  Certainly the person who forked this
> thread didn't have that goal in his post.  Yet this conversation keeps
> getting pulled into that direction.

Huh?

>From the OP:

> I'm just going by people recommendations in setting up a LUKS volume. 
> They all agree to do the urandom data will produce a stronger means of 
> encryption as opposed to all zeros, which is the last data pattern 
> written in the badblocks utility.