OT: Disposing Old Computer Parts

[Paul Mora]

On 6/6/07, Mike Oliver <moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> That will take a *looong* time, unless it's a really small HDD.  The
> idea of /dev/random is that it doesn't output bits faster than it
> can accumulate entropy (from keystrokes, disk start times, etc).  So
> it's quite slow.  Unless you're up against the NSA or equivalent, I'd think
> using /dev/urandom instead should be adequate.  If you *are* up against
> the NSA I don't want to know about it.

Try /dev/urandom.  When the entropy pool is exhausted, the kernel
switches to a pseudo-random number generator.

pm


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