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Originally Posted by davost View Post
On the line
dd if=/dev/urandom of=$CRYPTFILE bs=1M count=$CRYPTSIZE

why not /dev/random instead? Isn't that more secure?
I don't think so, it also requires more entropy. If you come up with a good doc explaining why it's better, let me know. Many docs I see use /dev/zero, so this is definitely an improvement over that.