From b4a9630f4b9faab4cd502213afbef3a81b9498bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:42:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] getrandom.2: wfix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/getrandom.2 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/getrandom.2 b/man2/getrandom.2 index 6442ce4d8..301b08afc 100644 --- a/man2/getrandom.2 +++ b/man2/getrandom.2 @@ -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