Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:10:05 +0200 | From | Lasse Kärkkäinen <> | Subject | Re: urandom is too slow |
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On 30.10.2012 23:38, Alan Cox wrote: > If you want to wipe a disk issue a security erase command via hdparm. > There is no guarantee that simply writing crap all over it will re-use > the same sectors of physical media, and for a flash drive it causes > massive wear and takes forever while a security erase is normally near > immediate. Alan
Thank you for your answers, they should be very helpful for someone who is actually blanking or shredding their disks. However, I am just genuinely interested on why is no better CSPRNG algorithm used in the kernel (is it simply because no-one sent a patch or am I missing something?).
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