Thread: cryptsetup: encrypted filesystem on your N900
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2010-01-12 , 13:37
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Originally Posted by davost View Post
On the line
dd if=/dev/urandom of=$CRYPTFILE bs=1M count=$CRYPTSIZE

why not /dev/random instead? Isn't that more secure?
urandom is non blocking, so using random maybe "more secure" but you are likely to suffer file system freezes using random - not something you would want.

random is generally used for cert generation and one off stuff like that
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Last edited by deadmalc; 2010-01-12 at 21:03. Reason: !probably, maybe - maybe not (I am too lazy to check)
 

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