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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 con‐
taining 1024 bytes of entropy.
SEE ALSOnessus-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)
