[ale] A little math
Greg Freemyer
greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 13:58:35 EST 2010
> I'm just going by people recommendations in setting up a LUKS volume.
> They all agree to do the urandom data will produce a stronger means of
> encryption as opposed to all zeros, which is the last data pattern
> written in the badblocks utility.
Ah, that's different. I assume they want random data so an attacker
can't differentiate encrypted data from empty space by a entropy test.
You are at the mercy of /dev/urandom and your cpu power.
Greg
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