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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 index 2715533..83ada14 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/BN_rand.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.28 (Pod::Simple 3.30) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.28 (Pod::Simple 3.28) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "BN_rand 3" -.TH BN_rand 3 "2016-05-03" "1.0.2h" "OpenSSL" +.TH BN_rand 3 "2016-09-22" "1.0.2i" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ BN_rand, BN_pseudo_rand, BN_rand_range, BN_pseudo_rand_range \- generate pseudo\ .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" \&\fIBN_rand()\fR generates a cryptographically strong pseudo-random number of -\&\fBbits\fR in length and stores it in \fBrnd\fR. If \fBtop\fR is \-1, the +\&\fBbits\fR in length and stores it in \fBrnd\fR. +If \fBbits\fR is less than zero, or too small to +accomodate the requirements specified by the \fBtop\fR and \fBbottom\fR +parameters, an error is returned. +If \fBtop\fR is \-1, the most significant bit of the random number can be zero. If \fBtop\fR is 0, it is set to 1, and if \fBtop\fR is 1, the two most significant bits of the number will be set to 1, so that the product of two such random |
