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Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man9/random.9')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/random.9 b/share/man/man9/random.9 index b0c0ff1ea51..3e184065f47 100644 --- a/share/man/man9/random.9 +++ b/share/man/man9/random.9 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: random.9,v 1.11 2001/09/28 16:02:52 heko Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: random.9,v 1.12 2002/05/27 01:59:58 deraadt Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996,2000 Michael Shalayeff .\" All rights reserved. @@ -52,8 +52,6 @@ .Fn add_audio_randomness "int" .Ft void .Fn get_random_bytes "void *buf" "size_t nbytes" -.Ft u_int8_t -.Fn arc4random_8 "void" .Ft u_int32_t .Fn arc4random "void" .br @@ -85,9 +83,8 @@ as it would by .Xr srandom 4 device. .br -.Nm arc4random , -.Nm arc4random_8 -will give random 32 and 8 respectively bit numbers hashed with +.Nm arc4random +will give random 32 bit numbers hashed with the ARC4 algorithm, which appears to be faster and less abusive to the entropy pool. .Sh SEE ALSO |