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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: egd-file Arg: Help: EGD socket path for random data Protocols: TLS Category: tls Added: 7.7 Multi: single See-also:

• random-file Example:
• --egd-file /random/here $URL

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--egd-file

Deprecated option (added in 7.84.0). Prior to that it only had an effect on curl if built to use old versions of OpenSSL.

Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The socket is used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.