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| -rw-r--r-- | CHANGES | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | apps/app_rand.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/rand.pod | 46 |
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6 [XX XXX 2000] + *) New 'rand' application for creating pseudo-random output. + [Bodo Moeller] + *) Added configuration support for Linux/IA64 [Rolf Haberrecker <rolf@suse.de>] diff --git a/apps/app_rand.c b/apps/app_rand.c index 26289e4349..64531df812 100644 --- a/apps/app_rand.c +++ b/apps/app_rand.c @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ long app_RAND_load_files(char *name) name=p+1; if (*n == '\0') break; - egd=RAND_egd(n); + egd=RAND_egd(n); if (egd > 0) tot+=egd; tot+=RAND_load_file(n,1024L*1024L); if (last) break; diff --git a/doc/apps/rand.pod b/doc/apps/rand.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4babf4e5ad --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/apps/rand.pod @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +=pod + +=head1 NAME + +rand - generate pseudo-random bytes + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + +B<openssl rand> +[B<-out> I<file>] +[B<-rand> I<file(s)> +[B<-base64>] +I<num> + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +The B<rand> command outputs I<num> pseudo-random bytes after seeding +the random number generater once. As in other B<openssl> command +line tools, PRNG seeding uses the file I<$HOME/>B<.rnd> or B<.rnd> +in addition to the files given in the B<-rand> option. A new +I<$HOME>/B<.rnd> or B<.rnd> file will be written back if enough +seeding was obtained from these sources. + +=head1 OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item B<-out> I<file> + +Write to I<file> instead of standard output. + +=item B<-rand> I<file(s)> + +Use specified file or files or EGD socket (see L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)>) +for seeding the random number generator. +Multiple files can be specified separated by a OS-dependent character. +The separator is B<;> for MS-Windows, B<,> for OpenVSM, and B<:> for +all others. + +=item B<-base64> + +Perform base64 encoding on the output. + +=back + +=cut |