diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 82555a7a8..d3ef033f3 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -802,9 +802,12 @@ [Geoff Thorpe] +) Add automatic query of EGD sockets in RAND_poll() for the unix variant. - If an EGD or PRNGD is running and enough entropy is returned, automatic - seeding like with /dev/[u]random will be performed. - Positions tried are: /etc/entropy, /var/run/egd-pool. + If /dev/[u]random devices are not available or do not return enough + entropy, EGD style sockets (served by EGD or PRNGD) will automatically + be queried. + The locations /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool, /etc/egd-pool, and + /etc/entropy will be queried once each in this sequence, quering stops + when enough entropy was collected without querying more sockets. [Lutz Jaenicke] +) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several