On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

> Just installing edg doesn't help.  You have to call RAND_egd()
> explicitely from within your application.  That will seed the PRNG
> with egd data.

And by the way that's not just to annoy you, but OpenSSL needs some
way to know where the egd socket is. Unlike /dev/urandom, egd has no
standardized location in the file system.
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