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| author | Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> | 2017-11-05 14:37:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> | 2018-02-28 21:20:01 +0100 |
| commit | d91f45688c2d0bfcc5b3b57fb20cc80b010eef0b (patch) | |
| tree | 8d1b6a41dcd33ac56b261d46d6fbad7675f0fd58 /doc | |
| parent | b3f9064cc66324d2359dba5350c71540ce869ceb (diff) | |
Tell the ciphers which DRBG to use for generating random bytes.
Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
GH: #4672
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod index 619a94eccf..3022c7a054 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod @@ -457,6 +457,20 @@ This call is only valid when decrypting data. =back +=head1 Random numbers + +The following can be used to select the DRBG that is used to generate the random +numbers: + +EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_CTRL_SET_DRBG, 0, drbg) + +The following can be used to get the DRBG: + +EVP_CIPHER_CTX_ctrl(ctx, EVP_CTRL_GET_DRBG, 0, &drbg) + +By default it's set to NULL which results in RAND_bytes() being used. + + =head1 NOTES Where possible the B<EVP> interface to symmetric ciphers should be used in |