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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2018-12-21 20:09:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2018-12-21 20:09:05 +0000 |
| commit | da3588742df9052a925d973446f22b64551d2943 (patch) | |
| tree | e8646f9fdec327d5afa2b60d3ed569305f2b6360 /lib/libcrypto/man | |
| parent | 799ec4937cf7f50d3815b930f7c6e76957764a8e (diff) | |
Since OpenBSD 6.1, BN_pseudo_rand*(3) does the same as BN_rand*(3).
Say so, and note that OpenSSL followed suit in 1.1.0 according
to OpenSSL commit 5ecff87d Jun 21 13:55:02 2017 +0100.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libcrypto/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 | 28 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 index fbfad032507..8434740664c 100644 --- a/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 +++ b/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: BN_rand.3,v 1.11 2018/03/27 17:35:50 schwarze Exp $ -.\" OpenSSL 05ea606a May 20 20:52:46 2016 -0400 +.\" $OpenBSD: BN_rand.3,v 1.12 2018/12/21 20:09:04 schwarze Exp $ +.\" full merge up to: OpenSSL 05ea606a May 20 20:52:46 2016 -0400 +.\" selective merge up to: OpenSSL df75c2bf Dec 9 01:02:36 2018 +0100 .\" .\" This file was written by Ulf Moeller <ulf@openssl.org>. .\" Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2015 The OpenSSL Project. @@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED .\" OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 27 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 21 2018 $ .Dt BN_RAND 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -114,10 +115,8 @@ is +1 then cannot also be 1. .Pp .Fn BN_pseudo_rand -does the same, but pseudo-random numbers generated by this function are -not necessarily unpredictable. -They can be used for non-cryptographic purposes and for certain purposes -in cryptographic protocols, but usually not for key generation etc. +is a deprecated alias for +.Fn BN_rand . .Pp .Fn BN_rand_range generates a cryptographically strong pseudo-random number @@ -125,9 +124,8 @@ generates a cryptographically strong pseudo-random number in the range 0 <= .Fa rnd No < Fa range . .Fn BN_pseudo_rand_range -does the same, but is based on -.Fn BN_pseudo_rand , -and hence numbers generated by it are not necessarily unpredictable. +is a deprecated alias for +.Fn BN_rand_range . .Sh RETURN VALUES The functions return 1 on success, 0 on error. The error codes can be obtained by @@ -145,6 +143,11 @@ first appeared in SSLeay 0.5.1 and has been available since .Fn BN_pseudo_rand first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.5 and has been available since .Ox 2.7 . +It does the same as +.Fn BN_rand +since +.Ox 6.1 +and since OpenSSL 1.1.0. .Pp The .Fa top @@ -156,3 +159,8 @@ first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.6a and have been available since .Fn BN_pseudo_rand_range first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.6c and have been available since .Ox 3.2 . +It does the same as +.Fn BN_rand_range +since +.Ox 6.1 +and since OpenSSL 1.1.0. |