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mention RAND_egd()

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Ulf Möller 2000-02-25 15:43:33 +00:00
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@ -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