At Thu, 12 Jun 2014 08:36:16 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > That being said, sometimes you just need the binary equivalent of an > uncompressible Lorem Ipsum text (dd if=/dev/urandom), but IMHO the kernel > could (and should) provide a device for that.
If you just want to overwrite something with random data, you can use shred instead of doing a dd from /dev/urandom. Shred uses an internal PRNG that should be fast enough: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#Random-sources -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87ha3q6zlx.wl%jer...@dekkers.ch
