On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:23 +0100, Alexander Todorov wrote: > in many disk encryption resources on the web the user is given an advice > to use /dev/random to populate the disk before he sets up the encryption > process. This is said to increase entropy and recommended for brand > new disks. > > Does anaconda have the support for that in the current block device > encryption implementation? I guess not but haven't looked at the code. > IMO a GIU/TUI/kickstart flag is enough to let the user choose if they > want to populate the device with random data prior to encryption. > What do you think? Given the amount of under the covers remapping that disks do these days and things like hidden sectors, etc, I really don't think it makes much difference. But if you do it, then you've got a very painful and long process that's pretty impossible to message in the UI. And if you're paranoid, there's always %pre Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
