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pollinate(1) pollinate pollinate(1)
NAME
pollinate - an Entropy-as-a-Service client
SYNOPSIS
pollinate [-c|--curl-opts CURL_OPTS] [-d|--device DEVICE] [-i|--insecure] [-n|--no-chal-
lenge] [-r|--reseed] [-s|--server SERVER1 [-s|--server SERVER2] ...]
DESCRIPTION
pollinate is an entropy as a service client. It will fetch a random seed from one or more
remote servers, and feed those into a (pseudo) random number generator. This is often
useful in cloud and virtual machine environments with limited sources of entropy.
OPTIONS
-b|--binary
rather than producing hex text sha512sum(1) output, convert each two hex digits
into a byte of binary data
-c|--curl-opts CURL_OPTS
options to pass through to curl(1)
-d|--device DEVICE
device to seed (default is /dev/urandom); note, you can use - to print to stdout
-n|--no-challenge
disable the challenge/response portion of the protocol; this enables a compatibil-
ity mode to speak to any entropy server, like random.org or news.google.com
-i|--insecure
ignore SSL/TLS certificate errors (use of this option is highly discouraged)
-p|--pool SERVER
remote pollen(8) server pool to interact with; this option can be specified multi-
ple times to interact with multiple servers in a pool
-r|--reseed
by default, pollinate technically only needs to run successfully once ever; this
option should be used if someone wants run more than once, and re-seed the PRNG
-s|--server SERVER
remote pollen(8) server to interact with; if this option is used, the pool is ig-
nored, and only a single server is used
--strict
handle network errors strictly and exit non-zero for any network error encountered,
otherwise default is to warn
-t|--testing
test communications with the pollen(8) server; note that this will NOT actually
seed your PRNG, but only verify that the local client can communicate with the re-
mote servers; note that this option forces DEVICE to stdout
-q|--quiet
silence any log messages
-w|--wait WAIT
time in seconds you're willing to wait for a response from the server, uses time-
out(1)
--print-user-agent
Print the user-agent that is used and exit immediately.
SEE ALSO
pollen(8), timeout(1)
AUTHOR
This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland AT ubuntu.com> for
Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute
and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3
published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.
pollinate 28 November 2012 pollinate(1)
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