At Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:58:58 -0400, Stroker wrote: > My question is, wouldn't the following command fill my > drives with randommess? Much more quickly than urandom? > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/encrypted_sdb1 Yes, with pseudorandomness just like urandom, as far as I know. > Perhaps change the key afterward, or even delete/rebuild > the dm-crypt block? You can overwrite the LUKS header multiple times and set up a new one. Btw: why do you want to overwrite the entire partition? In my eyes, this is some kind of rocket science and makes no sense, considering Kerckhoff's law. _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
