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support numeric strings in ASN1_generate_nconf
[oweals/openssl.git]
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doc
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crypto
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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.
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
=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.
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
=cut