diff --git a/man2/getrandom.2 b/man2/getrandom.2 index 1c36f5ac4..ed33a6951 100644 --- a/man2/getrandom.2 +++ b/man2/getrandom.2 @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ system call fills the buffer pointed to by with up to .I buflen random bytes. -These can be used to seed user-space random number generators +These bytes can be used to seed user-space random number generators or for cryptographic purposes. .PP .BR getrandom () @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ on other users of the and .I /dev/urandom devices. -Therefore +Therefore, .BR getrandom () should not be used for Monte Carlo simulations or other programs/algorithms which are doing probabilistic sampling.