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author | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2001-02-08 17:16:44 +0000 |
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committer | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2001-02-08 17:16:44 +0000 |
commit | 466e4249ab0cab8b4941261b1a9c4a9a04684e2c (patch) | |
tree | 577ee54eaf0bdf6e585d74d2d46a2948f6e65183 | |
parent | 9fbc45b15994cdefa21c866b4c803af4f3dc20d7 (diff) | |
download | openssl-new-466e4249ab0cab8b4941261b1a9c4a9a04684e2c.tar.gz |
Note that EGD is used automatically.
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diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod index 27aed57adb..a6363c82cd 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html . PRNGD does employ an internal PRNG itself and can therefore never run out of entropy. +OpenSSL automatically queries EGD on startup if the socket is located at +/var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool or /etc/egd-pool. + =head1 RETURN VALUE RAND_egd() and RAND_egd_bytes() return the number of bytes read from the |