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| author | Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> | 2018-03-30 01:07:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> | 2018-04-11 18:56:03 +0200 |
| commit | f7bef277eac05853224d33e67465147833c49108 (patch) | |
| tree | ee1e5c706f6a88581a5ff4f35d2a2bd0b59ec0ce /doc/man7/RAND.pod | |
| parent | 708a6a17592865590344eca541cbfccd472d7b45 (diff) | |
Minor corrections for the RAND_DRBG API documentation
- added some explaining text to a sentence that lost its context.
- removed mention of per-ssl drbg
- fix whitespace errors
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5804)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/man7/RAND.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man7/RAND.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man7/RAND.pod b/doc/man7/RAND.pod index 6ec7548972..578018feab 100644 --- a/doc/man7/RAND.pod +++ b/doc/man7/RAND.pod @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ return value of L<RAND_bytes(3)> and don't take randomness for granted. For long-term secrets, you can use L<RAND_priv_bytes(3)> instead. This method does not provide 'better' randomness, it uses the same type of CSPRNG. The intention behind using a dedicated CSPRNG exclusively for long-term secrets is -that none of its output should be visible to an attacker (e.g used as salt value), -in order to reveal as little information as possible about its internal state. +that none of its output should be visible to an attacker (e.g used as salt value), +in order to reveal as little information as possible about its internal state. In the rare case where the default implementation does not satisfy your special requirements, there are two options: |