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Article #182Re: random or urandom???
From: AutoJoe
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:04
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 17:04
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In article <3d7cd0f2$0$25296$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at>, "Clemens" <metax@despammed.com> wrote: > dd if=urandom of=/dev/hdb > dd if=random of=/dev/hdb > > I want to overwrite my harddisk with random gibberish. What are the > effects if I use "urandom"? What are the effects if I use "random"? > > What would you adwise, whatοΏ½s more reliable and secure? > > Why not use both? I assume your doing this to "shred" your data. If so, do both like 5 times over, and maybe the FBI won't be able to find your info. Do it like 2 million times, and you'll be sure that the FBI isn't after you, cause it'll probably take you like 2million days to shred the /dev/hdb that much 0.o PS: always set a followup-to header when posting to more then one group
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