On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 00:00 +0800, Drexx Laggui [personal] wrote: > I guess that with regular PCs, "badblocks -c 512 -s -w -t random" will > be good enough and a bit more useful. With with higher-risk computers > however, I'd recommend the use of "dd if=/dev/urandom". For the truly > secure machines that have the luxury of more preparation time, "dd > if=/dev/random" is the way to go.
with a robot to move the mouse, randomly press keys, and some programs to pump data through the network interface, to generate "random data", maybe just have tcpdump sniff the wire in promiscuous mode, hehehe. what else perturbs the entropy pool? disk access? :-) tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
