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| author |   deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2008-12-23 18:31:02 +0000 |
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| committer | deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2008-12-23 18:31:02 +0000 |
| commit | 3a423312c0f3f146662cf7742a5716bd448dd2e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5598f0cadc183aa464e248c76646d31ace1f1be4 /lib/libc | |
| parent | only a small number of thinkpads need the brightness adjustments (diff) | |
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repair the ARC4 story; ok jmc djm millert
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 index 2a12c6d94ee..d9f07ade6e2 100644 --- a/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.26 2008/06/09 06:04:02 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 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: June 9 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $ .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -125,11 +125,13 @@ It was considered a trade secret. Because it was a trade secret, it obviously could not be patented. A clone of this was posted anonymously to USENET and confirmed to be equivalent by several sources who had access to the original cipher. -Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. can do -nothing about the release of the ARC4 algorithm. +Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. could +do nothing about the release of the +.Ql Alleged RC4 +algorithm. Since .Pa RC4 -used to be a trade secret, the cipher is now referred to as +was trademarked, the cipher is now referred to as .Pa ARC4 . .Pp These functions first appeared in |