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getrandom.2: wfix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2016-11-11 10:42:24 +01:00
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@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ pool.
This behavior can be changed via the
.I flags
argument.
If the
.IR /dev/urandom
pool has been initialized,
@ -311,7 +312,7 @@ relies on entropy gathered from device drivers and other sources of
environmental noise.
It is designed to produce a small
amount of high-quality seed material to seed a
cryptographic pseudo-random number generator (CPRNG).
cryptographic pseudorandom number generator (CPRNG).
It is designed for security, not speed, and is poorly
suited to generating large amounts of cryptographic random data.
Users should be very economical in the amount of seed
@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ of data for Monte Carlo simulations or other
programs/algorithms which are doing probabilistic sampling.
And indeed, such usage is unnecessary (and will be slow):
instead, use these interfaces to provide a small amount of
data used to seed a user-space pseudo-random number generator
data used to seed a user-space pseudorandom number generator
for use by such applications.
.\"
.SS Generating cryptographic keys