Security and harddisk crubbing in Linux

[Sam Couter]

Drake Diedrich <dld at coyote.com.au> wrote:
>    /dev/urandom would take about a day to generate the necessary ~60G of
> pseudorandom data per pass, but you could always write very short programs
> (about three lines of C) to generate acceptable patterns instead and cut
> that to the hard drive writing speed (about an hour/pass).

Wiggle yer mouse for a while. That should generate a fair bit of
entropy.

>    [ Obligatory dig: why does DoD bother to create security standards for
>      Windows machines? Hasn't the horse already bolted? ]

Obligatory bite: I don't even know why they would ever allow sensitive
data *on* a Windows machine.
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