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| author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-09-19 20:42:55 +0000 |
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| committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 2012-09-19 20:42:55 +0000 |
| commit | 56d694b07204b875d67b7772b1ecb02cbff8790e (patch) | |
| tree | b4232568a54055e3e26898ef46956976ca6b30c7 /share | |
| parent | 398bf0a7edf532f65e99b7ef74111493bd290152 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-56d694b07204b875d67b7772b1ecb02cbff8790e.zip FreeBSD-src-56d694b07204b875d67b7772b1ecb02cbff8790e.tar.gz | |
Add Intel RdRand.
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/random.4 | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/random.4 b/share/man/man4/random.4 index 7401517..e2809f4 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/random.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/random.4 @@ -315,11 +315,16 @@ and is an implementation of the .Em Yarrow algorithm by Bruce Schneier, .Em et al . -The only hardware implementation -currently is for the +The only hardware implementations +currently are for the .Tn VIA C3 Nehemiah (stepping 3 or greater) -CPU. +CPU +and the +.Tn Intel +.Dq Bull Mountain +.Em RdRand +instruction and underlying random number generator (RNG). More will be added in the future. .Pp The author gratefully acknowledges |
