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Xr random 4 in a better way

OPENBSD_6_6
deraadt 4 years ago
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.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.35 2014/11/25 16:45:24 millert Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.36 2019/09/28 15:00:44 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: November 25 2014 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: September 28 2019 $
.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ On each call, a cryptographic pseudo-random number generator is used
to generate a new result.
One data pool is used for all consumers in a process, so that consumption
under program flow can act as additional stirring.
The subsystem is re-seeded from the kernel random number subsystem using
The subsystem is re-seeded from the kernel
.Xr random 4
subsystem using
.Xr getentropy 2
on a regular basis, and also upon
.Xr fork 2 .


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