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diff --git a/man/man1/rnds.1df b/man/man1/rnds.1df new file mode 100644 index 00000000..04e905d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/rnds.1df @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +.TH RNDS 1df "August 2016" "Manual page for rnds" +.SH NAME +.B rnds +\- try to get a random seed +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B rnds +.B rnds +1024 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B rnds +uses POSIX tools to try and find a random number device on the system and emits +the first field of a cksum(1) based on it as a low-quality random numeric seed. +The only optional argument allows specifying the number of random bytes to +read, defaulting to 32. This is intended as a low-quality seed for rndi(1df). +.P +/dev/urandom is tried first, then /dev/arandom, then /dev/random, before the +script gives up and emits nothing. +.P +If you have OpenSSL, you will almost certainly prefer rand(1ssl). +.SH SEE ALSO +rndi(1df), rnda(1df), rndf(1df), rndl(1df), rand(1ssl), rndn(6df) +.SH AUTHOR +Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> |