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@@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ Most components of the openssl command line tool try to use the file $HOME/.rnd (or $RANDFILE, if this environment variable is set) for seeding the PRNG. If this file does not exist or is too short, the "PRNG not seeded" error message may occur. +Pointing $RANDFILE to an Entropy Gathering Daemon socket does not work. +Use the "-rand" option of the OpenSSL command line tools instead. +The $RANDFILE environment variable and $HOME/.rnd are only used by the +OpenSSL command line tools. Applications using the OpenSSL library +provide their own configuration options to specify the entropy source, +please check out the documentation coming the with application. [Note to OpenSSL 0.9.5 users: The command "openssl rsa" in version 0.9.5 does not do this and will fail on systems without /dev/urandom |