Long: egd-file Arg: Help: EGD socket path for random data Protocols: TLS See-also: random-file Category: tls Example: --egd-file /random/here $URL Added: 7.7 --- Deprecated option. This option is ignored by curl since 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.