Is there an alternative to /dev/urandom?

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Published on 2009-05-08T19:22:03Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 5:43 UTC
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Is there some faster way than /dev/[u]random? Sometimes, I need to do things like

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/sdb

The random devices are "too" secure und unfortunately too slow for that. I know that there are wipe and similar tools for secure deletion, but I suppose there are also some on-board means to that in Linux.

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