5 RAND_egd - Query entropy gathering daemon
9 #include <openssl/rand.h>
11 int RAND_egd(const char *path);
15 RAND_egd() queries the entropy gathering daemon EGD on socket B<path>.
19 RAND_egd() returns the number of bytes read from the daemon on
20 success, and -1 if the connection failed or the daemon did not return
21 enough data to fully seed the PRNG.
25 L<rand(3)|rand(3)>, L<RAND_add(3)|RAND_add(3)>, L<RAND_cleanup(3)|RAND_cleanup(3)>
29 RAND_egd() is available since OpenSSL 0.9.5.