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Entropy Gathering Daemon

Overall security mainly depends on client side: good passphrase and cryprographically good pseudo random number generator.

Some operating systems do not have good enough quality PRNG, bad /dev/urandom. You should use separate PRNG with them. GoVPN communicates with them using Entropy Gathering Daemon protocol.

To switch using EGD-compatible daemons instead of crypto/rand library you provide -egd PATH command line option, where PATH is the domain socket.

$ ./govpn-server [...] -egd /var/run/egd.sock