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Diffstat (limited to 'secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3')
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 index 9020fbd..2b83f61 100644 --- a/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 +++ b/secure/lib/libcrypto/man/RAND_egd.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.28) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.27 (Pod::Simple 3.28) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ . ds PI \(*p . ds L" `` . ds R" '' +. ds C` +. ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. @@ -48,17 +50,24 @@ .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. -.ie \nF \{\ -. de IX -. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" +.\" +.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. +.de IX .. -. nr % 0 -. rr F -.\} -.el \{\ -. de IX +.nr rF 0 +.if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 +.if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{ +. if \nF \{ +. de IX +. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. +. if !\nF==2 \{ +. nr % 0 +. nr F 2 +. \} +. \} .\} +.rr rF .\" .\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2). .\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts. @@ -124,7 +133,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "RAND_egd 3" -.TH RAND_egd 3 "2014-10-15" "1.0.1j" "OpenSSL" +.TH RAND_egd 3 "2015-01-08" "1.0.1k" "OpenSSL" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -145,12 +154,12 @@ RAND_egd \- query entropy gathering daemon .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" \&\fIRAND_egd()\fR queries the entropy gathering daemon \s-1EGD\s0 on socket \fBpath\fR. It queries 255 bytes and uses \fIRAND_add\fR\|(3) to seed the -OpenSSL built-in \s-1PRNG\s0. RAND_egd(path) is a wrapper for +OpenSSL built-in \s-1PRNG.\s0 RAND_egd(path) is a wrapper for RAND_egd_bytes(path, 255); .PP \&\fIRAND_egd_bytes()\fR queries the entropy gathering daemon \s-1EGD\s0 on socket \fBpath\fR. It queries \fBbytes\fR bytes and uses \fIRAND_add\fR\|(3) to seed the -OpenSSL built-in \s-1PRNG\s0. +OpenSSL built-in \s-1PRNG.\s0 This function is more flexible than \fIRAND_egd()\fR. When only one secret key must be generated, it is not necessary to request the full amount 255 bytes from @@ -159,7 +168,7 @@ that can be retrieved from \s-1EGD\s0 over time is limited. .PP \&\fIRAND_query_egd_bytes()\fR performs the actual query of the \s-1EGD\s0 daemon on socket \&\fBpath\fR. If \fBbuf\fR is given, \fBbytes\fR bytes are queried and written into -\&\fBbuf\fR. If \fBbuf\fR is \s-1NULL\s0, \fBbytes\fR bytes are queried and used to seed the +\&\fBbuf\fR. If \fBbuf\fR is \s-1NULL, \s0\fBbytes\fR bytes are queried and used to seed the OpenSSL built-in \s-1PRNG\s0 using \fIRAND_add\fR\|(3). .SH "NOTES" .IX Header "NOTES" @@ -191,7 +200,7 @@ is located at /var/run/egd\-pool, /dev/egd\-pool or /etc/egd\-pool. .IX Header "RETURN VALUE" \&\fIRAND_egd()\fR and \fIRAND_egd_bytes()\fR return the number of bytes read from the daemon on success, and \-1 if the connection failed or the daemon did not -return enough data to fully seed the \s-1PRNG\s0. +return enough data to fully seed the \s-1PRNG.\s0 .PP \&\fIRAND_query_egd_bytes()\fR returns the number of bytes read from the daemon on success, and \-1 if the connection failed. The \s-1PRNG\s0 state is not considered. |
