pollen - an Entropy-as-a-Service web server

Author

       This  manpage  and  the  utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@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.

pollen                                          07 February 2013                                       pollen(1)

Description

pollen is an Entropy-as-a-Service web server, providing random seeds over a TLS encrypted connection.

       All  requests  are  serviced  over  HTTPS,  using  the  key  at  /etc/pollen/key.pem  and  the  cert   at
       /etc/pollen/cert.pem.

       Some configuration options are available to the system administrator in /etc/default/pollen.

Name

pollen - an Entropy-as-a-Service web server

Options

-http-port  -  the HTTP port on which to listen and serve cleartext responses; use "" to disable; default
       is "80"

       -https-port - the HTTPS port on which to listen and serve encrypted, TLS responses; use  ""  to  disable;
       default is "443"

       -device - the device to use for reading and writing random data; default is /dev/urandom-bytes  -  the  size,  in bytes, to transmit and receive each time to peers or neighbors listening in the
       pool; default is 64

       -cert - the path to the TLS certificate; default is /etc/pollen/cert.pem-key - the path to the TLS key; default is /etc/pollen/key.pem