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class method

OpenSSL::Random.egd_bytes

egd_bytes(filename, length) → true

Queries the entropy gathering daemon EGD on socket path given by filename.

Fetches length number of bytes and uses ::add to seed the OpenSSL built-in PRNG.

See also .egd .load_random_file .random_add also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0