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| author | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2000-02-24 03:36:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2000-02-24 03:36:01 +0000 |
| commit | 390ead1e9abc4edfd6eeca269ecab49d84af3b3c (patch) | |
| tree | ef9e22ee6297357e353ce3001acff2aa80da210f /doc/crypto | |
| parent | ac9c1bcb8164bf661119bc112b6d25c7cde7b604 (diff) | |
EGD info, as requested.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod index 251b71fec4..6f95a36926 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod @@ -14,7 +14,13 @@ RAND_egd - Query entropy gathering daemon RAND_egd() queries the entropy gathering daemon EGD on socket B<path>. -=head1 RETURN VALUES +EGD is available from http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ (C<perl +Makefile.PL; make; make install> to install). It is run as B<egd> +I<path>, where I<path> is an absolute path designating a socket. When +RAND_egd() is called with that path as an argument, it tries to read +random bytes that EGD has collected. + +=head1 RETURN VALUE RAND_egd() returns the number of bytes read from the daemon on success, and -1 if the connection failed or the daemon did not return |