Re: [Full-disclosure] Gutmann's research paper today

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 08:24 -0800, Mike Owen wrote:
Funny, that's how my backups always end up working as well. 'cat
/dev/urandom > /dev/tape'

:)

No, actually the backup is more like tar ...|openssl ...|dd ...|
tee /dev/nsa0 |md5

But yeah, for the disk, you're right:
dd if=/dev/urandom | tee /dev/ad2 | md5
Then:
dd if=/dev/ad2 | md5
and compare.

Cheers,
Frank

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