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.TH NESSUS-MKRAND 1 "September 2001" "The Nessus Project" "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
nessus-mkrand \- Creates a file with random bytes
.sp
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI nessus-mkrand\ [\| filename\ [\| entropy \|]\ ]

.SH DESCRIPTION

.LP
The
.B 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
.I /dev/random
(or
.IR /dev/urandom ).

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

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



.SH SEE ALSO

.BR nessus-adduser (8),\ nessusd (8),\ nessus (1),\ nessus-mkcert (8),
.BR nessusclient-mkcert (1),\ openssl(1)

.SH MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NESSUS PROJECT
The canonical places where you will find more information
about the Nessus project are:

.RS
.UR
http://www.nessus.org/
.UE
(Official site)
.br
.UR
http://cvs.nessus.org/
.UE
(Developers site)
.RE


.SH AUTHOR

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



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