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Note that EGD is used automatically.

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Ulf Möller 2001-02-08 17:16:44 +00:00
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@ -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 PRNGD does employ an internal PRNG itself and can therefore never run
out of entropy. 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 =head1 RETURN VALUE
RAND_egd() and RAND_egd_bytes() return the number of bytes read from the RAND_egd() and RAND_egd_bytes() return the number of bytes read from the