Loading doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +5 −2 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -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 Loading Loading
doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +5 −2 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -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 Loading
