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    SubjectRe: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux
    ¡Hola!

    > 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.
    Read from /dev/[u]random, use srandom(3) with that and then just
    get your low quality numbers from random(3).

    > Thomas
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    HoraPe
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    Horacio J. Peña
    horape@compendium.com.ar
    bofh@puntoar.net.ar
    horape@hcd.gov.ar

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