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 version 2.0 (GPLv2), MIT License

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Operating Systems

Linux, BSD

Languages

English

Intended Audience

System Administrators

User Interface

Non-interactive (Daemon)

Programming Language

Perl

Related Categories

Perl Cryptography Software

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2000-10-29
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