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declares the following:
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-92'><tt class='function'>add</tt></a></b>(<var>string, entropy</var>)
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-98'><tt class='function'>add</tt></a></b>(<var>string, entropy</var>)
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Mix bytes from <var>string</var> into the PRNG state. The <var>entropy</var> argument is
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(the lower bound of) an estimate of how much randomness is contained in
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<var>string</var>, measured in bytes. For more information, see e.g. <a class="rfc" name="rfcref-1878"
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<var>string</var>, measured in bytes. For more information, see e.g. <a class="rfc" name="rfcref-2096"
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href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1750.txt">RFC 1750</a>.
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-93'><tt class='function'>egd</tt></a></b>(<var>path</var><big>[</big><var>, bytes</var><big>]</big>)
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-99'><tt class='function'>bytes</tt></a></b>(<var>num_bytes</var>)
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Get some random bytes from the PRNG as a string.
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This is a wrapper for the C function <tt class="function">RAND_bytes</tt>.
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Erase the memory used by the PRNG.
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-101'><tt class='function'>egd</tt></a></b>(<var>path</var><big>[</big><var>, bytes</var><big>]</big>)
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Query the Entropy Gathering Daemon<A NAME="tex2html2"
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HREF="#foot972"><SUP>2</SUP></A> on socket <var>path</var> for <var>bytes</var>
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bytes of random data and and uses <tt class="function">add</tt> to seed the PRNG. The default
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<dl><dt><b><a name='l2h-94'><tt class='function'>load_file</tt></a></b>(<var>path</var><big>[</big><var>, bytes</var><big>]</big>)
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Read <var>bytes</var> bytes (or all of it, if <var>bytes</var> is negative) of data from
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Add the current contents of the screen to the PRNG state.
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Returns true if the PRNG has been seeded with enough data, and false otherwise.
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<DT><A NAME="foot972">... Daemon</A><A
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