Query: keyrand
OS: centos
Section: 1
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KEYRAND(1) Cryptography Utilities KEYRAND(1)NAMEkeyrand - utility for collecting random dataSYNOPSISkeyrand {bits} {outfile}DESCRIPTIONkeyrand 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.EXAMPLESThe following example will collect 1024 bits of random data and append them to the file data: # keyrand 1024 dataFILES/dev/randomSEE ALSOgenkey(1) crypto-utils 2.4.1 9 June 2014 KEYRAND(1)