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author | Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> | 2018-03-08 22:30:28 +0100 |
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committer | Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> | 2018-03-19 15:04:40 +0100 |
commit | 16cfc2c90d9e7776965db07c1f31bbec2f6c41e3 (patch) | |
tree | dab155d1453fce5e7e2a5d6c2d4d02557227cb41 /doc | |
parent | 7caf122e717e79afcb986fe217e77a630b67bf4c (diff) |
Don't use a ssl specific DRBG anymore
Since the public and private DRBG are per thread we don't need one
per ssl object anymore. It could also try to get entropy from a DRBG
that's really from an other thread because the SSL object moved to an
other thread.
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5547)
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod index b1b51cb3a0..030b010898 100644 --- a/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod +++ b/doc/man3/EVP_EncryptInit.pod @@ -457,20 +457,6 @@ 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 |