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+.\" $OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.6 2014/07/18 18:20:17 deraadt Exp $
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $
.Dt GETENTROPY 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Fn getentropy "void *buf" "size_t buflen"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
-fills a buffer with high-quality seed-grade entropy, which can
-be used as input for process-context random
-generators like
+fills a buffer with high-quality entropy, which can be used
+as input for process-context pseudorandom generators like
.Xr arc4random 3 .
.Pp
The maximum buffer size permitted is 256 bytes.