[ale] little math

[Greg Freemyer]

Is a two or three delay in putting a new encrypted drive in service
such a big deal?

I mean it's not like the user/admin has to do anything but wait it out.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Use the existing chunk of random data as a source. Now write a random length
> of that source with some math done on it using another random length. Mix in
> some random inversions and reversals and some overwrites of the existing
> data and continue untill the drive is full.
>
> On Feb 11, 2010 10:30 AM, "Jim Popovitch" <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:26, Boris Borisov <bugy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Why you just not creat...
>
> Yeah, what he said.  Plus, open 4 or 5 terminals and run simultaneous
> dd instances, with each reading the same ~/random.file and writing to
> new unique file names.   You could wipe a 1TB drive in abt 2 hours
> that way if you throw some for-loops or while statements in there.
>
> -Jim P.
>
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