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ssl.RAND_egd()

ssl.RAND_egd(path)

If you are running an entropy-gathering daemon (EGD) somewhere, and path is the pathname of a socket connection open to it, this will read 256 bytes of randomness from the socket, and add it to the SSL pseudo-random number generator to increase the security of generated secret keys. This is typically only necessary on systems without better sources of randomness.

See http://egd.sourceforge.net/ or http://prngd.sourceforge.net/ for sources of entropy-gathering daemons.

Availability: not available with LibreSSL.

Links:

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/ssl.html#ssl.RAND_egd

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2016-10-07 17:42:49

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