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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Kurt Roeckx
  • Date: 2009-06-13 18:15:46 UTC
  • mto: (11.1.5 squeeze)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 34.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090613181546-vbfntai3b009dl1u
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Makefile.PL; make; make install> to install). It is run as B<egd>
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I<path>, where I<path> is an absolute path designating a socket. When
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RAND_egd() is called with that path as an argument, it tries to read
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random bytes that EGD has collected. The read is performed in
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non-blocking mode.
 
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random bytes that EGD has collected. RAND_egd() retrieves entropy from the
 
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daemon using the daemon's "non-blocking read" command which shall
 
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be answered immediately by the daemon without waiting for additional
 
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entropy to be collected. The write and read socket operations in the
 
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communication are blocking.
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Alternatively, the EGD-interface compatible daemon PRNGD can be used. It is
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available from