Method: OpenSSL::Random.egd_bytes

Defined in:
ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c

.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.

Returns:

  • (true) 


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# File 'ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c', line 148

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;
}