Module Name: src Committed By: riastradh Date: Fri May 1 19:56:08 UTC 2020
Modified Files: src/share/man/man4: rnd.4 Log Message: Combine some related paragraphs. To generate a diff of this commit: cvs rdiff -u -r1.32 -r1.33 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files: Index: src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 diff -u src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.32 src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.33 --- src/share/man/man4/rnd.4:1.32 Fri May 1 19:54:37 2020 +++ src/share/man/man4/rnd.4 Fri May 1 19:56:08 2020 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.32 2020/05/01 19:54:37 riastradh Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: rnd.4,v 1.33 2020/05/01 19:56:08 riastradh Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2014-2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ Systems should be engineered to judiciou at boot before running any services that talk to the internet or otherwise require cryptography, in order to avoid generating keys predictably. -.Pp .Pa /dev/random may block at any time, so programs that read from it must be prepared to handle blocking. @@ -100,7 +99,6 @@ or .Pa /dev/urandom influences subsequent output of both devices, guaranteed to take effect at next open. -.Pp If you have a coin in your pocket, you can flip it 256 times and feed the outputs to .Pa /dev/random