centos man page for keyrand

KEYRAND(1)						      Cryptography Utilities							KEYRAND(1)

NAME
       keyrand - utility for collecting random data

SYNOPSIS
       keyrand {bits} {outfile}

DESCRIPTION
       keyrand is a tool which collects a given number of random bits from the kernel random number generator, presenting a text-based user
       interface showing progress.

       The random data is read from /dev/random and appended to the output file outfile, which must already exist.

EXAMPLES
       The following example will collect 1024 bits of random data and append them to the file data:

	   # keyrand 1024 data

FILES
       /dev/random

SEE ALSO
       genkey(1)

crypto-utils 2.4.1						    9 June 2014 							KEYRAND(1)