Re:Kanagawa government hard disks swiped, sold online
by NKK6co7lnafKvg on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:39AM
(#21721630)
On Linux this will generally be CPU bound instead of IO bound because urandom is very slow.
It's much faster to mount it as an encrypted drive with a random key and then dd over the encrypted mapping.
Eg:
cryptsetup open --type plain --key-file /dev/urandom --key-size 256 $DEV crypttmp
Eg:
cryptsetup open --type plain --key-file /dev/urandom --key-size 256 $DEV crypttmp
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/crypttmp bs=4k