<p>Can't recall the link but some fed agency nist maybe, had huge random datafiles for download. Urandom runs dry quick doing a drive wipe.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 10, 2010 2:03 PM, "Greg Freemyer" <<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">> I'm just going by people recommendations in setting up a LUKS volume.<br>
> They all agree to do the u...</font></p>Ah, that's different. I assume they want random data so an attacker<br>
can't differentiate encrypted data from empty space by a entropy test.<br>
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You are at the mercy of /dev/urandom and your cpu power.<br>
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