From 7fc3fa369ad11684910663e2b1563ed2c3a77435 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Igor=20Gali=C4=87?= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:34:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] remove misleading information about mod_ssl behaviour on FreeBSD. EDG is a dead project. rndcontrol has been removed 11 years ago. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1324709 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml | 11 +---------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml index 045c21b9e3..1be9e22ea6 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml @@ -366,16 +366,7 @@ The following source variants are available:

can take a long time). Here using an existing /dev/urandom is better, because it never blocks and actually gives the amount of requested data. The drawback is just that the quality of the received data may not - be the best.

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- On some platforms like FreeBSD one can even control how the entropy is - actually generated, i.e. by which system interrupts. More details one can - find under rndcontrol(8) on those platforms. Alternatively, when - your system lacks such a random device, you can use tool - like EGD - (Entropy Gathering Daemon) and run it's client program with the - exec:/path/to/program/ variant (see below) or use - egd:/path/to/egd-socket (see below).

+ be the best.

  • exec:/path/to/program

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