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bogus random entropy sources

bogus random entropy sources

Posted Oct 6, 2010 19:34 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: bogus random entropy sources by jzbiciak
Parent article: Solid-state storage devices and the block layer

Hehe, so shred was using entropy collected from the disk controllers, collected from shred writing to disks..


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