From 390ead1e9abc4edfd6eeca269ecab49d84af3b3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Ulf=20M=C3=B6ller?= Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:36:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] EGD info, as requested. --- doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod index 251b71fec4..6f95a36926 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod @@ -14,7 +14,13 @@ RAND_egd - Query entropy gathering daemon RAND_egd() queries the entropy gathering daemon EGD on socket B. -=head1 RETURN VALUES +EGD is available from http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/ (C to install). It is run as B +I, where I 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 -- 2.34.1