From: galactus@stack.nl (Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet) Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp Subject: Re: Question about an undocumented PGP command... Message-ID: References: <3324f699.1888513@news.primenet.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In article <3324f699.1888513@news.primenet.com>, Tunnel Rat wrote: > There is an undocumented PGP command that lets you create a .DAT file, > whose length is specified at the command line prompt, with random contents, > but it's been so long since I used it, I can't remember what the command > was. It was something like: > > pgp -makedat 4000 The command is +makerandom, as in pgp +makerandom=4000 file.ext PGP will now create a file called "file.ext" (or "randseed.bin" if the filename is omitted) containing 4000 random bytes. There is a bug in this routine, which makes the output far less random than normal. I'm not sure if it has been fixed in the latest 2.6.*i version (it's not in the MIT version). - -- To find out more about PGP, send mail with HELP PGP in the SUBJECT line to me. NEW ADDRESS: --> galactus@stack.nl <-- Please PGP encrypt your mail. Finger galactus@turtle.stack.nl for public key (key ID 0x416A1A35). Anonymity and privacy site: http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: cp850 iQCVAgUBMyWu3DyeOyxBaho1AQFuCgQArK4zKsk+8ldxiFUiikB44udwXrjjEozv T3fcycit+Uj9z0vb1eEpdEsUqgCRQCakKmS45GZBRvd+XgVxiMcRv6SgE0w0ouCZ 6JoLE4ZlxcN0YIeN0W/nElwTIyTTxYuQrNi2G+Bd/Oo5/+thKgXRH/ViULPjbgoF fmbGXQbkNRw= =Gcqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----