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egd_bytes

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egd_bytes(p1, p2) public

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.

static VALUE
ossl_rand_egd_bytes(VALUE self, VALUE filename, VALUE len)
{
    int n = NUM2INT(len);

    rb_check_safe_obj(filename);

    if (RAND_egd_bytes(StringValueCStr(filename), n) == -1) {
        ossl_raise(eRandomError, NULL);
    }
    return Qtrue;
}

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