From: rekado Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 15:43:03 +0000 (+0800) Subject: correction: random, not urandom X-Git-Url: https://git.elephly.net/gitweb.cgi?p=software%2Felephly-net.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=087d14f0e27d9cd7af6ab228748c712fa54c74da correction: random, not urandom --- diff --git a/posts/2013-10-01-dm-crypt.markdown b/posts/2013-10-01-dm-crypt.markdown index aaa45f3..401de87 100644 --- a/posts/2013-10-01-dm-crypt.markdown +++ b/posts/2013-10-01-dm-crypt.markdown @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ device `/dev/zero` and write them to the file `~/my-container.img`. This will create a file named `my-container.img` in your home directory that will be about 100MB of zeros[^1]. -[^1]: You could use `/dev/urandom` as the input device if you wanted to, but +[^1]: You could use `/dev/random` as the input device if you wanted to, but that would be considerably slower and wouldn't help you much. Later commands will initialise the file/partition, so you don't need to initialise it manually with random numbers.)