openvasclient-mkrand1
Creates a file with random bytes
Usage
nessusclient-mkrand [filename
[entropy]]
Overview
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.
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)