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remove reference to no longer existing description of nonexistent devices;

ok deraadt@ tedu@, wording tweaks jmc@
OPENBSD_5_3
naddy 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 7 deletions
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      src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3

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src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 deraadt Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.28 2012/07/26 18:39:48 naddy Exp $
.\" .\"
.\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
.\" All rights reserved. .\" All rights reserved.
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" .\"
.\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
.\" .\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 26 2012 $
.Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3
.Os .Os
.Sh NAME .Sh NAME
@ -69,11 +69,8 @@ which uses 8*8 8-bit S-Boxes.
The S-Boxes can be in about (2**1700) states. The S-Boxes can be in about (2**1700) states.
.Pp .Pp
.Fn arc4random .Fn arc4random
fits into a middle ground not covered by other subsystems such as
the strong, slow, and resource expensive random
devices described in
.Xr random 4
versus the fast but poor quality interfaces described in
provides a cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator,
as opposed to the fast but poor quality interfaces described in
.Xr rand 3 , .Xr rand 3 ,
.Xr random 3 , .Xr random 3 ,
and and


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