From 466e4249ab0cab8b4941261b1a9c4a9a04684e2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulf=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:16:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note that EGD is used automatically. --- doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod index 27aed57adb..a6363c82cd 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod @@ -54,6 +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. + =head1 RETURN VALUE RAND_egd() and RAND_egd_bytes() return the number of bytes read from the