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[openssl.git] / doc / crypto / RAND_egd.pod

diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod
index 27aed57adbd5de2b2bdcbe0c4a8651eda4195b2f..62adbe19b29e9e2263f3ebdd027a28721b652da3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_egd.pod
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ 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 when entropy is requested via RAND_bytes()
+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
 
 RAND_egd() and RAND_egd_bytes() return the number of bytes read from the
@@ -76,4 +80,6 @@ RAND_egd_bytes() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.6.
 
 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.
+
 =cut