diff --git a/man4/random.4 b/man4/random.4
index 5f0d52472..95fee6ed0 100644
--- a/man4/random.4
+++ b/man4/random.4
@@ -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