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  1. Bug #279598
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 279598

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Another recently committed patch upstream has taken out /dev/urandom as the default random source for shred (the internal PRNG is back in). shred is now at least 10 times faster.

I have opened (and marked fixed) an upstream task to signal a fix is available on current trunk.