Commit 96dfab9e authored by Lutz Jänicke's avatar Lutz Jänicke
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Include information that automatic query is a new feature.

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doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod

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@@ -54,8 +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

PRNGD does employ an internal PRNG itself and can therefore never run

out of entropy.

out of entropy.





OpenSSL automatically queries EGD on startup if the socket is located at

OpenSSL automatically queries EGD when entropy is requested via RAND_bytes()

/var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool or /etc/egd-pool.

or the status is checked via RAND_status() for the first time, if the socket

is located at /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool or /etc/egd-pool.





=head1 RETURN VALUE

=head1 RETURN VALUE
@@ -79,4 +80,6 @@ RAND_egd_bytes() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.6. 




RAND_query_egd_bytes() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.7.

RAND_query_egd_bytes() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.7.





The automatic query of /var/run/egd-pool et al was added in OpenSSL 0.9.7.



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