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.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995
.\" Mark Murray. All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
.\" are met:
.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
.\" This product includes software developed by Mark Murray
.\" and Theodore Ts'o
.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors
.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
.\" without specific prior written permission.
.\"
.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY MARK MURRAY AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd October 20, 1995
.Dt RNDCONTROL 8
.Os FreeBSD 2
.Sh NAME
.Nm \&rndcontrol
.Nd a utility for manipulating the /dev/random device.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm \&rndcontrol
.Op Fl q
.Op Fl s Ar irq_no
.Op Fl c Ar irq_no
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm rndcontrol
command is used to set which interrupts are used to help randomise
the ``pool of entropy'' maintained by the kernel. The
.Em /dev/random
and
.Em /dev/urandom
devices are the user interface to this source of randomness.
Any changes take effect immediately.
.Sh OPTIONS
.TP
The following command line options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl q
Turns off all output except errors.
.It Fl s Ar n
Allows IRQ
.Em n
to be used as a source of randomness. This option may be repeated for
more than one IRQ.
.It Fl c Ar n
Stops IRQ
.Em n
from being used as a source of randomness. This option may be repeated for
more than one IRQ.
.Pp
The default is to have no IRQ's being used.
.Pp
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It Pa /dev/random - Secure random device
.It Pa /dev/urandom - Random device
.El
.Sh BUGS
Sure to be some.
.Sh "SEE ALSO"
.Xr random 4
.Sh AUTHOR
Theodore Ts'o wrote the core code. Mark Murray ported this code to
FreeBSD and wrote the support routines and constructed the man pages.
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm rndcontrol
first appeared in
.Fx 2.1.5 .
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