[ale] little math

[Jim Popovitch]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 23:28, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 22:56, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>> >From the OP:
>>
>>> 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.
>
> OK, the LUKS people make sense... but where does it say that repeating
> urandom data every so often is a security concern or that having 100%
> random data on the whole disk is a security enhancement?    Again, my
> whole point is that duplicity of random data is no less week than no
> having duplicity of random data.   The assumption that one will be
> able to tell the random data from real data hasn't been proven beyond
> assumption.

Oh, and if they do prove that being able to tell the random data from
real data can be determined, show me the LUKS vulnerability.

-Jim P.