On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 01:15:23PM +0100, 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 11:59:26 CET Holger Levsen wrote: > > oh, and if you want to securly erase data, use /dev/random, not > > /dev/urandom. > > This is not good advice, your /dev/random device creates true randomness, > but it only generates a very small amount of data, bytes per minute.
yet, wipe uses it by default. it's slow, but doesnt take *years*, merely
hours. (wipe's default is also to overwrite 4 times…)
and then, haveged can be used to fill the randomness pool. as in apt
install haveged.
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cheers,
Holger
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