pollen.8

.TH pollen 1 "07 February 2013" pollen "pollen server"
.SH NAME
\fBpollen\fP \- an Entropy-as-a-Service web server

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBpollen\fP [OPTION]...

.SH OPTIONS

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

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

\fB-device\fP - the device to use for reading and writing random data; default is \fI/dev/urandom\fP

\fB-bytes\fP - the size, in bytes, to transmit and receive each time to peers or neighbors listening in the pool; default is 64

\fB-cert\fP - the path to the TLS certificate; default is \fI/etc/pollen/cert.pem\fP

\fB-key\fP - the path to the TLS key; default is \fI/etc/pollen/key.pem\fP

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpollen\fP 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 \fI/etc/pollen/key.pem\fP and the cert at \fI/etc/pollen/cert.pem\fP.

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

.SH SEE ALSO
\fBpollen\fP(1), \fBpollinate\fP(1)

.SH 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 \fIhttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt\fP.