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Fast Way to Randomize HD?
I've read about how to make hard drives secure for encryption, and one of the steps is to write random bits to the drive, in order to make the encrypted data indistinguishable from the rest of the ...
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Why does dd from /dev/random give different file sizes?
I am running the following command on an ubuntu system:
dd if=/dev/random of=rand bs=1K count=2
However, every time I run it, I end up with a file of a different size. Why is this? How can I ...
