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