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ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt<p><span class="application">genrandom</span> — generate a file containing random data</p>
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt<div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">genrandom</code> {<em class="replaceable"><code>size</code></em>} {<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>}</p></div>
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt <span><strong class="command">genrandom</strong></span>
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt generates a file containing a specified quantity of psuedo-random
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt data, which can be used as a source of entropy for other commands
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt on systems with no random device.
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate.
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt The file name into which random data should be written.
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rand</span>(3)</span>,
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">arc4random</span>(3)</span>
ca42dcc0686fefd3db202edab80e5adb09d6add5Evan Hunt<p><span class="corpauthor">Internet Systems Consortium</span>