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Include information that automatic query is a new feature.

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Lutz Jänicke 2001-02-10 19:10:36 +00:00
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@ -54,8 +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.
OpenSSL automatically queries EGD when entropy is requested via RAND_bytes()
or the status is checked via RAND_status() for the first time, if the socket
is located at /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool or /etc/egd-pool.
=head1 RETURN VALUE
@ -79,4 +80,6 @@ RAND_egd_bytes() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.6.
RAND_query_egd_bytes() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.7.
The automatic query of /var/run/egd-pool et al was added in OpenSSL 0.9.7.
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