From: Igor Galić Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:34:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: remove misleading information about mod_ssl behaviour on FreeBSD. X-Git-Tag: 2.5.0-alpha~7205 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fc3fa369ad11684910663e2b1563ed2c3a77435;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git remove misleading information about mod_ssl behaviour on FreeBSD. EDG is a dead project. rndcontrol has been removed 11 years ago. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1324709 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml index 045c21b9e30..1be9e22ea69 100644 --- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml +++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_ssl.xml @@ -366,16 +366,7 @@ The following source variants are available:

can take a long time). Here using an existing /dev/urandom is better, because it never blocks and actually gives the amount of requested data. The drawback is just that the quality of the received data may not - be the best.

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- On some platforms like FreeBSD one can even control how the entropy is - actually generated, i.e. by which system interrupts. More details one can - find under rndcontrol(8) on those platforms. Alternatively, when - your system lacks such a random device, you can use tool - like EGD - (Entropy Gathering Daemon) and run it's client program with the - exec:/path/to/program/ variant (see below) or use - egd:/path/to/egd-socket (see below).

+ be the best.

  • exec:/path/to/program