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class method
OpenSSL::Random.egd_bytes
egd_bytes(filename, length) → true
ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c
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static VALUE
ossl_rand_egd_bytes(VALUE self, VALUE filename, VALUE len)
{
int n = NUM2INT(len);
if (RAND_egd_bytes(StringValueCStr(filename), n) == -1) {
ossl_raise(eRandomError, NULL);
}
return Qtrue;
}
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.