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EGD info, as requested.

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Ulf Möller 2000-02-24 03:36:01 +00:00
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@ -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