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arc4random re-seeds with getentropy() now; ok deraadt@ jmc@

OPENBSD_5_6
naddy 10 years ago
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.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.33 2014/07/09 16:57:49 beck Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.34 2014/07/19 16:11:16 naddy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 9 2014 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 19 2014 $
.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
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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
.Xr sysctl 3
.Xr getentropy 2
on a regular basis, and also upon
.Xr fork 2 .
.Pp


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