Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux

thomasz@hostmaster.org
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 23:03:44 +0100

I suspect that it would be very safe to write random data over a file several times.
Unfortunately the current /dev/random and /dev/urandom are very slow in generating data. Therefore I would rather like a /dev/frandom for fast, low quality randomness.

Thomas

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