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| author | Kjell Wooding <kjell@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-06-10 15:42:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Kjell Wooding <kjell@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-06-10 15:42:25 +0000 |
| commit | a981103755027ffa59d42c6164b2d43707e41256 (patch) | |
| tree | c4103ad0253419115f20f0f0aae2269025edded2 /sbin | |
| parent | a63b8df8f2d911153cf51fdff3c419af21713ccd (diff) | |
save some entropy in random key generation. oked by angelos many moons ago
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ipsecadm/ipsecadm.8 | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ipsecadm/ipsecadm.8 b/sbin/ipsecadm/ipsecadm.8 index f2a0325fb50..47a7ed9e8c5 100644 --- a/sbin/ipsecadm/ipsecadm.8 +++ b/sbin/ipsecadm/ipsecadm.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ipsecadm.8,v 1.50 2002/06/09 08:13:06 todd Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ipsecadm.8,v 1.51 2002/06/10 15:42:24 kjell Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> .\" All rights reserved. @@ -433,9 +433,10 @@ The should be chosen in random (ideally, using some true-random source like coin flipping). It is very important that the key is not guessable. -One practical way of generating keys is by using the -.Xr random 4 -device (e.g., dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=1 | sha1) +One practical way of generating 160-bit (20-byte) keys is as follows: +.Bd -literal + $ openssl rand 20 | hexdump -e '20/1 "%02x"' +.Ed .It Fl keyfile Read the key from a file. May be used instead of the @@ -455,9 +456,10 @@ The should be chosen in random (ideally, using some true-random source like coin flipping). It is very important that the key is not guessable. -One practical way of generating keys is by using the -.Xr random 4 -device (e.g., dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=1 | sha1) +One practical way of generating 160-bit (20-byte) keys is as follows: +.Bd -literal + $ openssl rand 20 | hexdump -e '20/1 "%02x"' +.Ed .It Fl authkeyfile Read the authkey from a file. May be used instead of the |