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.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.34 2014/07/19 16:11:16 naddy Exp $ |
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.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> |
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.\" All rights reserved. |
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.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2014 $ |
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.Dd $Mdocdate: July 19 2014 $ |
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.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 |
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One data pool is used for all consumers in a process, so that consumption |
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under program flow can act as additional stirring. |
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The subsystem is re-seeded from the kernel random number subsystem using |
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on a regular basis, and also upon |
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.Xr fork 2 . |
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