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From: Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock@gmail.com>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS and LVM
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:46:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5FF3CC.6010804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110218200718.GA12395@tansi.org>

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On 02/18/11 13:07, Arno Wagner wrote:
> (I use plain dm-crypt
>>> with a random password and overwrite with conventional,
>>> mt19997-generated randomness).


Why use random data to overwrite? Shouldn't /dev/zero be enough since
the crypto should produce good randomness on disk?

nick
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-19 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 16:39 [dm-crypt] LUKS and LVM Eric Bauman
2011-02-18 17:33 ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-18 17:53   ` Eric Bauman
2011-02-18 19:57     ` Milan Broz
2011-02-18 20:07     ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-19 14:01       ` Eric Bauman
2011-02-19 14:52         ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-19 16:46       ` Nicolas Bock [this message]
2011-02-19 17:10         ` Milan Broz
2011-02-19 18:17           ` Jonas Meurer
2011-02-19 19:11             ` Nicolas Bock
2011-02-19 19:10           ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-19 19:08         ` Arno Wagner
2011-02-19 19:12           ` Nicolas Bock

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