[CLUE-Tech] /dev/random vs. /dev/zero [was Re: Clear HDD of old OS, etc?]

David Anselmi anselmi at americanisp.net
Sun Jun 2 16:56:20 MDT 2002


Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> I would be a little leery of random and would use /dev/zero myself.

Why do you say this?  I would guess that the driver details are very
similar, except for the algorithm to generate bytes (of course).

Anyone else know differently?

Dave



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