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xf.li6c8fc1e2023-08-12 00:11:09 -07001c: Copyright (C) 1998 - 2022, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
2SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
3Long: egd-file
4Arg: <file>
5Help: EGD socket path for random data
6Protocols: TLS
7See-also: random-file
8Category: tls
9Example: --egd-file /random/here $URL
10Added: 7.7
11Multi: single
12---
13Deprecated option. This option is ignored by curl since 7.84.0. Prior to that
14it only had an effect on curl if built to use old versions of OpenSSL.
15
16Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The socket is
17used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.