Re: [patch #6797] shred option to use internal RNG

[Jim Meyering]

James Youngman wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6797 (project coreutils):
>
> IMO both /dev/urandom and /dev/random should be used as sources of data for
> seeding PRNGs, as opposed to being used as sources of random data directly.
> My rationale for this is that even using /dev/urandom for large quantities of
> data will exhaust the system's entropy pool.

Good idea.
Can anyone think of an application in which shred
would have to use higher-quality random data?