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| author | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2000-01-21 19:54:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Bodo Möller <bodo@openssl.org> | 2000-01-21 19:54:22 +0000 |
| commit | 720b3598d6b5c6cac7807ef9121820d35bc0be1d (patch) | |
| tree | ac0340d01b230908529ca4cf43dc047a452df098 /doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod | |
| parent | 60b5245360a70f4b10a6c77aa0bf5ee04b2e7262 (diff) | |
Avoid integer overflow in entropy counter.
Slightly clarify the RAND_... documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod index fe53919801..9eeb399377 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_add.pod @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ RAND_add() may be called with sensitive data such as user entered passwords. The seed values cannot be recovered from the PRNG output. OpenSSL makes sure that the PRNG state is unique for each thread. On -systems that provide C</dev/random>, the randomness device is used +systems that provide C</dev/urandom>, the randomness device is used to seed the PRNG transparently. However, on all other systems, the application is responsible for seeding the PRNG by calling RAND_add() or RAND_load_file(3). |