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Typical?

The article says:

It is typically used for providing a character stream for encryption, incompressible data, or securely overwriting files.

No. These are not typical uses but rather they are just some of the typical uses. But it is no more secure to overwrite a file with random data than it is do to do will nulls, so that is a poor and inefficient way of overwriting files!

Paul Beardsell 23:27, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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