[ale] A little math

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 13:58:35 EST 2010


> I'm just going by people recommendations in setting up a LUKS volume.
> They all agree to do the urandom data will produce a stronger means of
> encryption as opposed to all zeros, which is the last data pattern
> written in the badblocks utility.

Ah, that's different.  I assume they want random data so an attacker
can't differentiate encrypted data from empty space by a entropy test.

You are at the mercy of /dev/urandom and your cpu power.

Greg


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