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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-08 18:37:10 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-08 18:37:10 +0000
commita0a75f1cffdf769d9451ca829da41ae1bb5af4ba (patch)
tree5cf5b6489290fa62cbadcbfd17e90f8ec0660bd0 /lib
parent5bcb0b18905e67cd579a22a9b60e2d48be82d3f5 (diff)
arc4random_stir() does not use /dev/arandom anymore, but sysctl kern.arandom
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.310
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3
index 9c9ab8705cf..db9405aa780 100644
--- a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3
+++ b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.24 2008/03/16 22:18:24 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.25 2008/06/08 18:37:09 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: March 16 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 8 2008 $
.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ as it avoids "modulo bias" when the upper bound is not a power of two.
.Pp
The
.Fn arc4random_stir
-function reads data from
-.Pa /dev/arandom
+function reads data using
+.Xr sysctl 2
+from
+.Pa kern.arandom
and uses it to permute the S-Boxes via
.Fn arc4random_addrandom .
.Pp