3 @cindex Entropy Gathering Daemon
5 @subsection Entropy Gathering Daemon
7 Overall security mainly depends on client side:
8 @ref{PAKE, good passphrase} and cryprographically good pseudo random
11 Some operating systems do not have good enough quality PRNG, bad
12 @code{/dev/urandom}. You should use separate PRNG with them. GoVPN
13 communicates with them using
14 @url{http://egd.sourceforge.net/, Entropy Gathering Daemon} protocol.
16 To switch using EGD-compatible daemons instead of @code{crypto/rand}
17 library you provide @code{-egd PATH} command line option, where
18 @code{PATH} is the domain socket.
21 % ./govpn-server [...] -egd /var/run/egd.sock