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 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, 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
containing 1024 bytes of entropy.
SEE ALSO
openvas-adduser(8), openvasd(8), openvas(1), openvas-mkcert(8),
openvas-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>.