Name

SSLRandomFile

Synopsis

SSLRandomFile file|egd file|egd-socket bytes
Server config
Not available in Apache v2

This directive loads some randomness. This is loaded at startup, reading at most bytes bytes from file. The randomness will be shared between all server instances. You can have as many of these as you want.

Randomness seems to be a slightly coy way of saying random numbers. They are needed for the session key and the session ID. The assumption is, not unreasonably, that uploaded random numbers are more random than those generated in your machine. In fact, a digital machine cannot generate truly random numbers. See the SSLRandomFilePerConnection section.