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2c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
4Long: egd-file
5Arg: <file>
6Help: EGD socket path for random data
7Protocols: TLS
8Category: deprecated
9Added: 7.7
10Multi: single
11See-also:
12  - random-file
13Example:
14  - --egd-file /random/here $URL
15---
16
17# `--egd-file`
18
19Deprecated option (added in 7.84.0). Prior to that it only had an effect on
20curl if built to use old versions of OpenSSL.
21
22Specify the path name to the Entropy Gathering Daemon socket. The socket is
23used to seed the random engine for SSL connections.
24