On 04/20/2014 10:45 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I'm using this piece of code :
dd iflag=fullblock if=/dev/random of=keyfile bs=512 count=8
to generate random file to be used as key for an encritped filesystem. However, the block does not appear to be fully random, because I recognize text patterns inside:
000000b0 af 60 31 79 02 9f f9 92 ad e5 a3 62 f2 72 39 f7 |.`1y.......b.r9.| 000000c0 3b 5c 9a 27 4e 30 54 be 34 32 02 ea 23 82 96 f3 |;\.'N0T.42..#...| 000000d0 88 5d 8d 3d 7e fe 16 d6 53 91 18 de b1 49 a8 21 |.].=~...S....I.!|
See the "'N0T.42" there. Am I doing it wrong, or simply overreacting?
I immediately thought of "The Bible Code" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Code_%28book%29 Try running it again and see if you get "marvin" or "Betlebrock" or something like that. Or even "Not.43" -- The two pillars of `political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth -- George MacDonald Fraser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org