egd-file.md (559B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Long: egd-file 5 Arg: <file> 6 Help: EGD socket path for random data 7 Protocols: TLS 8 Category: deprecated 9 Added: 7.7 10 Multi: single 11 See-also: 12 - random-file 13 Example: 14 - --egd-file /random/here $URL 15 --- 16 17 # `--egd-file` 18 19 Deprecated option (added in 7.84.0). Prior to that it only had an effect on 20 curl if built to use old versions of OpenSSL. 21 22 Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The socket is 23 used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.