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| author | Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-06-07 19:56:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-06-07 19:56:18 +0000 |
| commit | 518099af59fbde0e7140459c76f59c9ac24bdf9c (patch) | |
| tree | 873f9f63931a5d069bbcb053ea49eec4a92802dc /doc/crypto | |
| parent | c285625302c2411508052af6f109be9f6b789379 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod index 079838ea2e4a8..8b8c61d161b1a 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod @@ -45,8 +45,11 @@ 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. The read is performed in -non-blocking mode. +random bytes that EGD has collected. RAND_egd() retrieves entropy from the +daemon using the daemon's "non-blocking read" 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. Alternatively, the EGD-interface compatible daemon PRNGD can be used. It is available from |