Tuesday, January 15, 2008

[TOOL] Rainmaker - Command Line Pseudo Random Number Generator

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Rainmaker - Command Line Pseudo Random Number Generator
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SUMMARY

DETAILS

Rainmaker is a command line pseudo random number generator designed to
work on multiple platforms. Rainmaker can be used produce
cryptographically strong non-blocking output in many formats (Base-16,
Alphanumeric, Numeric , and Alpha only modes). The can be used be used to
create random passwords, session identifiers, as a source of randomness
for other application which require random but specifically formatted
random data.

Rainmaker uses the encryption algorithm
<http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/sosemanukp3.html> SOSEMANUK along with a
random 128-bit session key and 128-bit Initial Vectors to encrypt the
entropy pool gathered from /dev/urandom or /dev/random.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:finitefield256@gmail.com>
Frank Gardner.
The original article can be found at:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/rmaker/>

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rmaker/

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