markus reichelt wrote:
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John W. Moore III wrote:
Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and
it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size)
What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the
/randomization of the partition by use of dev/urandom?
on a sidenote, using /dev/urandom is a bad idea. f.e. the standard
slackware install and other distros as well have the following code
(or something similar) in /etc/rc.d/rc.S:
The above statement, although worthwhile, is not well founded. I think
it would be better to restate that randomization through utilization of
SOME pseudo-random generators is not recommended. Or maybe even that
some are more recommended than others.
For instance, I utilize the GSL for my system(s). Although, it is not
truly random; it is significantly better to utilize such rng's rather
than default rng's with a cots system.. After all, I don't know anybody
who has the resources to acquire hardware rng's.
However, if you may have a recommendation on how to obtain the highest
amount of sufficiently random number generation; I would be most
interested to hear it. I am always looking for more secure methods to
perform everyday activities.
Cheers,
Thomas
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