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random.4: Minor wording improvement (split long sentence into two) 

Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2020-04-20 11:51:12 +02:00
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@ -136,11 +136,13 @@ these applications,
must be used instead,
because it will block until the entropy pool is initialized.
.PP
If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below (all major
Linux distributions have done this since 2000 at least), the output is
If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below,
the output is
cryptographically secure against attackers without local root access as
soon as it is reloaded in the boot sequence, and perfectly adequate for
network encryption session keys.
(All major Linux distributions have saved the seed file across reboots
since 2000 at least.)
Since reads from
.I /dev/random
may block, users will usually want to open it in nonblocking mode