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ipsec_ranbits

IPSEC_RANBITS(8)						  [FIXME: manual]						  IPSEC_RANBITS(8)

NAME

       ipsec_ranbits - generate random bits in ASCII form

SYNOPSIS

       ipsec ranbits [--quick] [--continuous] [--bytes] nbits

DESCRIPTION

       Ranbits obtains nbits (rounded up to the nearest byte) high-quality random bits from random(4), and emits them on standard output as an
       ASCII string. The default output format is datatot(3) h format: lowercase hexadecimal with a 0x prefix and an underscore every 32 bits.

       The --quick option produces quick-and-dirty random bits: instead of using the high-quality random bits from /dev/random, which may take
       some time to supply the necessary bits if nbits is large, ranbits uses /dev/urandom, which yields prompt results but lower-quality
       randomness.

       The --continuous option uses datatot(3) x output format, like h but without the underscores.

       The --bytes option causes nbits to be interpreted as a byte count rather than a bit count.

FILES

       /dev/random, /dev/urandom

SEE ALSO

       ipsec_datatot(3), random(4)

HISTORY

       Written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project <http://www.freeswan.org> by Henry Spencer.

BUGS

       There is an internal limit on nbits, currently 20000.

       Without --quick, ranbits's run time is difficult to predict. A request for a large number of bits, at a time when the system's entropy pool
       is low on randomness, may take quite a while to satisfy.

       Though not a bug of ranbits, the direct use of /dev/hw_random, the Linux hardware random number generator is not supported because it can
       produce very non-random data. To properly use /dev/hw_random, the rngd daemon should be used to read from /dev/hw_random and write to
       /dev/random, while performing a FIPS test on the hardware random read. No changes to Openswan are required for this support - just a
       running rngd.

[FIXME: source] 						    10/06/2010							  IPSEC_RANBITS(8)

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