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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 index 7d7775b..09ea99e 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v1.37, Pod::Parser v1.35 +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v1.37, Pod::Parser v1.37 .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "RAND_egd 3" -.TH RAND_egd 3 "2007-03-15" "0.9.8e" "OpenSSL" +.TH RAND_egd 3 "2009-06-14" "0.9.8k" "OpenSSL" .SH "NAME" RAND_egd \- query entropy gathering daemon .SH "SYNOPSIS" @@ -177,8 +177,11 @@ a socket interface through which entropy can be gathered in chunks up to Makefile.PL; make; make install\*(C'\fR to install). It is run as \fBegd\fR \&\fIpath\fR, where \fIpath\fR is an absolute path designating a socket. When \&\fIRAND_egd()\fR is called with that path as an argument, it tries to read -random bytes that \s-1EGD\s0 has collected. The read is performed in -non-blocking mode. +random bytes that \s-1EGD\s0 has collected. \fIRAND_egd()\fR retrieves entropy from the +daemon using the daemon's \*(L"non\-blocking read\*(R" command which shall +be answered immediately by the daemon without waiting for additional +entropy to be collected. The write and read socket operations in the +communication are blocking. .PP Alternatively, the EGD-interface compatible daemon \s-1PRNGD\s0 can be used. It is available from |
