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All the document said was mersenne twister, and while i saw a few legacy ones uing mt19937, i never saw a straight answer. This method is good enough to prevent software based programs from recovering any data on your drive, but it may. Free and very simple to use pedigree making software. I was doing a wipe on a 1tb sata drive attached via usb using the mersenne twister option random numbers written to drive and it was taking forever, like 1% done after 6 hours or so. The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by mersenne twister or isaac. It is based on linux and supports pata, scsi, and sata hard drives. Dban is a selfcontained boot disk that automatically deletes the contents of any hard disk that it can detect. Predict mt19937 prng, from preceding 624 generated numbers. The most commonly used version of the mersenne twister algorithm is based on the mersenne prime 2 19937.
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