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author | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2000-02-25 15:43:33 +0000 |
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committer | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2000-02-25 15:43:33 +0000 |
commit | 1c890fa86415d7f739509701e213a2093fe53438 (patch) | |
tree | 485f6a3cce81ab47894b680df4c5333f2c8b8219 /doc/crypto | |
parent | b08b07b8ae6c216390727ee6b39afc79c6589973 (diff) |
mention RAND_egd()
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod index a3a2113cac..0a13ec2a92 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ passwords. The seed values cannot be recovered from the PRNG output. OpenSSL makes sure that the PRNG state is unique for each thread. On systems that provide C</dev/urandom>, the randomness device is used to seed the PRNG transparently. However, on all other systems, the -application is responsible for seeding the PRNG by calling RAND_add() +application is responsible for seeding the PRNG by calling RAND_add(), +L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)> or L<RAND_load_file(3)|RAND_load_file(3)>. RAND_seed() is equivalent to RAND_add() when B<num == entropy>. @@ -55,7 +56,8 @@ The other functions do not return values. =head1 SEE ALSO -L<rand(3)|rand(3)>, L<RAND_load_file(3)|RAND_load_file(3)>, L<RAND_cleanup(3)|RAND_cleanup(3)> +L<rand(3)|rand(3)>, L<RAND_egd(3)|RAND_egd(3)>, +L<RAND_load_file(3)|RAND_load_file(3)>, L<RAND_cleanup(3)|RAND_cleanup(3)> =head1 HISTORY |