[ale] little math

[JK]

On 2/11/2010 11:31 AM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:05, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com>  wrote:
>> Boris Borisov wrote:
>>>   Why you just not create small file ( 2 MB ) with random data and dd it
>>> to the disk. dd ~/random.file>  /dev/hda.. Never tried but won't call
>>> CPU to calculate every random number. Must be random enough.
>>
>> The randomness of such a solution is, a, not random?  You'd simply be
>> repeating that same data, hence not random.
>
> But the data that is being repeated is itself random.   So you would
> essentially be repeating random data sequentially.   The only pattern
> is the random data.


The objective is to disguise actual (encrypted) data in a forest of
fake random data.  Any obvious repetition in the fake data will make the
non-fake data easy to find.

-- JK


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