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| author | Pauli <paul.dale@oracle.com> | 2020-12-10 12:04:27 +1000 |
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| committer | Pauli <ppzgs1@gmail.com> | 2021-02-23 23:24:13 +1000 |
| commit | ac60c84fc4551761743e087e2f51343181eb8e85 (patch) | |
| tree | 28b1b4cffff298bf8b2216a6b80abbb729beff0d /doc/man7/RAND.pod | |
| parent | f5b00834dd11d766b9232e89e40884db8f3cd7ec (diff) | |
RAND_METHOD deprecation: documentation
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/13652)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/RAND.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/RAND.pod b/doc/man7/RAND.pod index 7bad23a0ca..8ae55ccac8 100644 --- a/doc/man7/RAND.pod +++ b/doc/man7/RAND.pod @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ possible about its internal state, and that a compromise of the "public" CSPRNG instance will not affect the secrecy of these private values. In the rare case where the default implementation does not satisfy your special -requirements, the default RAND method can be replaced by your own RAND -method using L<RAND_set_rand_method(3)>. +requirements, the default RAND internals can be replaced by your own +L<EVP_RAND(3)> objects. Changing the default random generator should be necessary only in exceptional cases and is not recommended, unless you have a profound @@ -66,11 +66,9 @@ number generator (CSPRNG), which is described in [NIST SP 800-90A Rev. 1]. L<RAND_bytes(3)>, L<RAND_priv_bytes(3)>, -L<RAND_get_rand_method(3)>, -L<RAND_set_rand_method(3)>, -L<RAND_OpenSSL(3)>, L<EVP_RAND(3)>, -L<RAND_get0_primary(3)> +L<RAND_get0_primary(3)>, +L<EVP_RAND(7)> =head1 COPYRIGHT |