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Update changelog to reflect additional changes made to the egd-locations.

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Lutz Jänicke 2001-05-10 09:45:31 +00:00
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[Geoff Thorpe] [Geoff Thorpe]
+) Add automatic query of EGD sockets in RAND_poll() for the unix variant. +) 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 If /dev/[u]random devices are not available or do not return enough
seeding like with /dev/[u]random will be performed. entropy, EGD style sockets (served by EGD or PRNGD) will automatically
Positions tried are: /etc/entropy, /var/run/egd-pool. 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] [Lutz Jaenicke]
+) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several +) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several