nessus-mkrand

nessus-mkrand - Creates a file with random bytes

I nessus-mkrand [ filename  [ entropy ] ]

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 R /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 R $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 containing 1024 bytes of entropy.

nessus-adduser(8),\ nessusd (8),\ nessus (1),\ nessus-mkcert (8), nessus-mkcert-client(1),\ openssl(1)

The canonical places where you will find more information about the Nessus project are:

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