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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 index d9f07ade6e2..aa2e12fb48e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.28 2012/07/26 18:39:48 naddy Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> .\" All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 26 2012 $ .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -69,11 +69,8 @@ which uses 8*8 8-bit S-Boxes. The S-Boxes can be in about (2**1700) states. .Pp .Fn arc4random -fits into a middle ground not covered by other subsystems such as -the strong, slow, and resource expensive random -devices described in -.Xr random 4 -versus the fast but poor quality interfaces described in +provides a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator, +as opposed to the fast but poor quality interfaces described in .Xr rand 3 , .Xr random 3 , and |