Messages in this thread | | | From | thomasz@hostmast ... | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:03:44 +0100 | Subject | Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux |
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I suspect that it would be very safe to write random data over a file several times. Unfortunately the current /dev/random and /dev/urandom are very slow in generating data. Therefore I would rather like a /dev/frandom for fast, low quality randomness.
Thomas
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