The Entropy Gathering Daemon is a portable perl script which provides a source of randomness on systems that lack an in-kernel /dev/random. GnuPG, OpenSSH, and the OpenSSL toolkit can use EGD to seed their random number generators.
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GNU General Public License (GPL), MIT License
Category:
Cryptography
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Project Admins :
warner
- Developers : 1
- Development Status : 4 - Beta
- Intended Audience : System Administrators
- License : GNU General Public License (GPL), MIT License
- Operating System : All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)
- Programming Language : Perl
- Topic : Cryptography
- Translations : English
- User Interface : Non-interactive (Daemon)
- Project UNIX name : egd
- Registered : 2000-10-29 23:55
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