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Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-rand-helper.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | ssh-rand-helper.8 | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/ssh-rand-helper.8 b/ssh-rand-helper.8 index a89185c0..df559d33 100644 --- a/ssh-rand-helper.8 +++ b/ssh-rand-helper.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: ssh-rand-helper.8,v 1.1 2002/04/14 09:27:13 djm Exp $ +.\" $Id: ssh-rand-helper.8,v 1.2 2003/11/21 12:48:56 djm Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2002 Damien Miller. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -34,22 +34,22 @@ .Op Fl b Ar bytes .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -is a small helper program used by +is a small helper program used by .Xr ssh 1 , .Xr ssh-add 1 , .Xr ssh-agent 1 , .Xr ssh-keygen 1 , -.Xr ssh-keyscan 1 +.Xr ssh-keyscan 1 and .Xr sshd 8 -to gather random numbers of cryptographic quality if the +to gather random numbers of cryptographic quality if the .Xr openssl 4 library has not been configured to provide them itself. .Pp -Normally +Normally .Nm will generate a strong random seed and provide it to the calling -program via standard output. If standard output is a tty, +program via standard output. If standard output is a tty, .Nm will instead print the seed in hexidecimal format unless told otherwise. .Pp @@ -57,19 +57,19 @@ will instead print the seed in hexidecimal format unless told otherwise. will by default gather random numbers from the system commands listed in .Pa /etc/ssh/ssh_prng_cmds . -The output of each of the commands listed will be hashed and used to -generate a random seed for the calling program. +The output of each of the commands listed will be hashed and used to +generate a random seed for the calling program. .Nm -will also store seed files in +will also store seed files in .Pa ~/.ssh/prng_seed between executions. .Pp -Alternately, +Alternately, .Nm -may be configured at build time to collect random numbers from a +may be configured at build time to collect random numbers from a EGD/PRNGd server via a unix domain or localhost tcp socket. .Pp -This program is not intended to be run by the end-user, so the few +This program is not intended to be run by the end-user, so the few commandline options are for debugging purposes only. .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl b Ar bytes |