Re: Disk Wiping Utilities

From: securityfocus.com@delgreco.net
Date: 03/29/02 

Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:40:15 -0500
From: securityfocus.com@delgreco.net
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:24:12PM -0800, Craig Skelton wrote:
> If you are using a real operating system (*nix) then you can simply
> dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda

/dev/random is really slow to fill with entropy. urandom is more than
good enough for this, and doesn't run out the way /dev/random does.

Rob