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)
