NESSUS-MKRAND(1)

NAME
nessusclient-mkrand - Creates a file with random bytes

SYNOPSIS
nessusclient-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 nessusclient-mkrand which is stored by default under $HOME/.rnd. nessusclient-mkcert and nessusclient-mkcert require user input as a random seed. By default, nessusclient-mkrand produces a file stored under $HOME/.rnd containing 1024 bytes of entropy.

SEE ALSO
nessus-adduser(8), nessusd(8), nessus(1), nessusclient-mkcert(8), nessusclient-mkcert(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
nessusclient-mkrand was written by Michel Arboi <arboi@algoriel.fr>.