Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote:
> >>Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at
> >>4MB/s it'll take a loooong time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB
> >>job?
> >>
> >>What other options are there?
> >>
> >
> >Why roll your own when there are *MANY* disk wipers out there.
> >Everything from srm & sfill in the secure-delete package, to wipe,
> >to dban.sourceforge.net.
>
> Thank you, reading up on them now. I was just wondering if there was
> another standard device I could use on all systems.
OpenSSL has rand
If you have another source of data the size of your drive, run openssl
enc on the raw partition. It all depends on the non-repeat-length you
need.
Doug.
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