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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-09-28 15:00:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-09-28 15:00:45 +0000 |
| commit | 3a77e1cc3dc4eb48eb5dfb3239150c768f108c6a (patch) | |
| tree | 991511f09b905aa4cf591b025f534a53d2d54779 /lib/libc | |
| parent | 87a79262f72f557eabdd56237b3ce661efde288f (diff) | |
Xr random 4 in a better way
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 index fd0185707ff..2bc7dd0d00a 100644 --- a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.35 2014/11/25 16:45:24 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.36 2019/09/28 15:00:44 deraadt Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> .\" All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 28 2019 $ .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ On each call, a cryptographic pseudo-random number generator is used to generate a new result. One data pool is used for all consumers in a process, so that consumption under program flow can act as additional stirring. -The subsystem is re-seeded from the kernel random number subsystem using +The subsystem is re-seeded from the kernel +.Xr random 4 +subsystem using .Xr getentropy 2 on a regular basis, and also upon .Xr fork 2 . |