I am unsure on the benefits of such a move: the idea behind writing the file/disk with random data is to make an eventual recovery more difficult. Fixing on a single value (albeit random) sort of defeats it -- it will be just a bit more difficult to find the pattern, and subtract it out of the signals.
Still researching. -- shred is very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279598 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
