urandom(4)                                                   urandom(4)

  random

  NAME

    random, urandom - device to produce random data

  DESCRIPTION

    When read, the /dev/random and /dev/urandom special device files produce
    cryptographically valid random output data. Although the two files are
    provided for backward compatibility, they are functionally identical. Data
    written to these files is discarded.

    These files can be created using the following commands:

    /usr/sbin/mknod -m 666 /dev/random c 48 5
    chown $(hostname)+Administrator:+Administrators random
    /usr/sbin/mknod -m 666 /dev/urandom c 48 6
    chown $(hostname)+Administrator:+Administrators urandom

  FILES

    /dev/random

    /dev/urandom