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author | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-05-10 09:45:31 +0000 |
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committer | Lutz Jänicke <jaenicke@openssl.org> | 2001-05-10 09:45:31 +0000 |
commit | 3351b8d007df7da8fb4bbb91033bc4b9819b4585 (patch) | |
tree | dd19b840d78ff70dbf5eda24afffa36a86495954 | |
parent | 4b49bf6a93d1958513aff6a1254194fb581500cb (diff) | |
download | openssl-3351b8d007df7da8fb4bbb91033bc4b9819b4585.tar.gz |
Update changelog to reflect additional changes made to the egd-locations.
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@@ -802,9 +802,12 @@ [Geoff Thorpe] +) Add automatic query of EGD sockets in RAND_poll() for the unix variant. - If an EGD or PRNGD is running and enough entropy is returned, automatic - seeding like with /dev/[u]random will be performed. - Positions tried are: /etc/entropy, /var/run/egd-pool. + If /dev/[u]random devices are not available or do not return enough + entropy, EGD style sockets (served by EGD or PRNGD) will automatically + be queried. + The locations /var/run/egd-pool, /dev/egd-pool, /etc/egd-pool, and + /etc/entropy will be queried once each in this sequence, quering stops + when enough entropy was collected without querying more sockets. [Lutz Jaenicke] +) Change the Unix RAND_poll() variant to be able to poll several |