From 3b99d58bd921b25eba94ea2af1bc03f2c4a01868 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: deraadt Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:20:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] As discussed with beck, tweak the wording for getentropy slightly so that a certain kind of people don't go bonkers over "what is entropy". it is what it is, input to PRNG's. --- lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 index 307d467c4f0..27f0a63413c 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getentropy.2 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.5 2014/07/13 21:39:00 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: getentropy.2,v 1.6 2014/07/18 18:20:17 deraadt Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Theo de Raadt .\" @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: July 18 2014 $ .Dt GETENTROPY 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -26,9 +26,8 @@ .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. -- 2.20.1