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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-07-18 18:20:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-07-18 18:20:18 +0000 |
| commit | 476221e1ba2232a7190d3de758abb56a07f343c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 090b109cbd4049d27e63b355845803ca8b65778d | |
| parent | bed61ae1704b13137aae9cbd5a909b7fdd0a8178 (diff) | |
As discussed with beck, tweak the wording for getentropy slightly so
that a certain kind of people don't go bonkers over "what is entropy".
it is what it is, input to PRNG's.
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 index 307d467c4f0..27f0a63413c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.5 2014/07/13 21:39:00 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.6 2014/07/18 18:20:17 deraadt Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Theo de Raadt .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $ .Dt GETENTROPY 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ .Fn getentropy "void *buf" "size_t buflen" .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -fills a buffer with high-quality seed-grade entropy, which can -be used as input for process-context random -generators like +fills a buffer with high-quality entropy, which can be used +as input for process-context pseudorandom generators like .Xr arc4random 3 . .Pp The maximum buffer size permitted is 256 bytes. |