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NAME

       nessus-mkrand - Creates a file with random bytes


SYNOPSIS

       nessus-mkrand [filename [entropy] ]


DESCRIPTION

       The Nessus Security Scanner protects the communication between the
       client and the server by using SSL.  To work securely, the OpenSSL
       library needs a suitable amount of random bytes.  On most system, it
       uses EGD or /dev/random (or /dev/urandom).

       On systems which have none of these, Nessus will provide OpenSSL with a
       file full of random bytes generated by nessus-mkrand which is stored by
       default under $HOME/.rnd.  nessus-mkcert and nessus-mkcert-client
       require user input as a random seed.

       By default, nessus-mkrand produces a file stored under $HOME/.rnd
       containing 1024 bytes of entropy.


SEE ALSO

       nessus-adduser(8), nessusd(8), nessus(1), nessus-mkcert(8),
       nessus-mkcert-client(1), openssl(1)


MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NESSUS PROJECT

       The canonical places where you will find more information about the
       Nessus project are:

              http://www.nessus.org/ <> (Official site)
              http://cvs.nessus.org/ <> (Developers site)


AUTHOR

       nessus-mkrand was written by Michel Arboi <arboi@algoriel.fr>.

The Nessus Project              September 2001                NESSUS-MKRAND(1)

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