[patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG

[Steven Schveighoffer]

Follow-up Comment #4, patch #6797 (project coreutils):

Thanks for the suggestion, but I really don't understand the reluctance to
utilize the (already implemented) internal random number generator.  It's
there, it costs nothing extra to use it, it doesn't require extra programs
that generate random data, nor external files.  It's even the default case
when /dev/urandom does not exist.  What is the downside?

Incidentally, the hack I would choose over all the ones suggested is to
chroot to remove /dev/urandom.   I'd just have to copy the disk nodes to a
ghosted /dev directory.

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