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OpenVAS-MKRAND(1)		 User Manuals		     OpenVAS-MKRAND(1)

NAME
       openvas-mkrand - Creates a file with random bytes

SYNOPSIS
       openvas-mkrand [filename [entropy] ]

DESCRIPTION
       The  OpenVAS  Security  Scanner	protects the communication between the
       client and the scanner 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, OpenVAS will provide OpenSSL  with
       a file full of random bytes generated by openvas-mkrand which is stored
       by default under $HOME/.rnd.  openvas-mkcert and	 openvas-mkcert-client
       require user input as a random seed.

       By default, openvas-mkrand produces a file stored under $HOME/.rnd con‐
       taining 1024 bytes of entropy.

SEE ALSO
       openvas-adduser(8), openvassd(8), openvas(1), openvas-mkcert(8),	 open‐
       vas-mkcert-client(1), openssl(1)

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OpenVAS PROJECT
       The  canonical  places  where  you will find more information about the
       OpenVAS project are:

	      http://www.openvas.org/ ⟨⟩ (Official site)
	      http://cvs.openvas.org/ ⟨⟩ (Developers site)

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

The OpenVAS Project		September 2001		     OpenVAS-MKRAND(1)
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