diff --git a/man4/random.4 b/man4/random.4
index e9105f554..1a02c90db 100644
--- a/man4/random.4
+++ b/man4/random.4
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 .\" Some changes by tytso and aeb.
 .\"
 .\" 2004-12-16, John V. Belmonte/mtk, Updated init and quit scripts
+.\" 2004-04-08, AEB, Improved descrtiption of read from /dev/urandom
 .\"
 .TH RANDOM 4 2003-10-25 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
@@ -33,8 +34,9 @@ high quality randomness such as one-time pad or key generation.
 When the entropy pool is empty, reads from \fB/dev/random\fP will block 
 until additional environmental noise is gathered.
 .LP 
-When read, \fB/dev/urandom\fP device will return as many bytes as are
-requested.  As a result, if there is not sufficient entropy in the
+A read from the \fB/dev/urandom\fP device will not block
+waiting for more entropy.
+As a result, if there is not sufficient entropy in the
 entropy pool, the returned values are theoretically vulnerable to a
 cryptographic attack on the algorithms used by the driver.  Knowledge of
 how to do this is not available in the current non-classified