centos man page for keyrand

Query: keyrand

OS: centos

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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)
Related Man Pages
random(4) - mojave
urandom(4) - mojave
random(4) - osx
genkey(1) - centos
urandom(7d) - opensolaris
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