On 2019-01-28 at 10:12:28 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Another point: several people have mentioned using /dev/urandom. It's > important to note that this is a *pseudo-random* generator. It starts > from a random seed, but from that generates a completely deterministic > pattern. If you have the seed, you have everything. And since the idea > here is to overwrite the disk, the first part of which contains > "plaintext" that follows a regular layout (partition table etc.) it > makes the task of decoding the disk even easier as that's the only part > you would actually have to analyse at a physical level.
But it is just a little more random than all zeroes. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
