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NESSUS-MKRAND(1)		 User Manuals		      NESSUS-MKRAND(1)

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 con‐
       taining 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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