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| author | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-02-10 19:10:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-02-10 19:10:36 +0000 |
| commit | 96dfab9e0e1d60cbac0f35622a4fd7d684f4e990 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e59a4642f26c1e45e358be4ab88ce3c53b3a430 /doc | |
| parent | 1b65ce7db33c8bbb0194d0d7013cccf492fd3c2f (diff) | |
Include information that automatic query is a new feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod index a6363c82cd..62adbe19b2 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod @@ -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. + =cut |