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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-01-02 12:08:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-01-02 12:08:31 +0100 |
| commit | 477c35bc1b0a785bd0b1eb5d57943b0483390519 (patch) | |
| tree | 6402dd9b4665ea1634c7eaff579b2877fe28e366 | |
| parent | 35673e24858eb47f82f7d5dcb3c3a492e25e99e8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-477c35bc1b0a785bd0b1eb5d57943b0483390519.tar.gz | |
arc4random.3: Be consistent in uses of pseudorandom
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/arc4random.3 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man3/arc4random.3 b/man3/arc4random.3 index 2afcec2c4e..6128ba7a4d 100644 --- a/man3/arc4random.3 +++ b/man3/arc4random.3 @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Standard C library .BI "void arc4random_buf(void " buf [. n "], size_t " n ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION -These functions give cryptographically-secure random numbers. +These functions give cryptographically-secure pseudorandom numbers. .PP .BR arc4random () returns a uniformly-distributed value. @@ -33,14 +33,14 @@ fills the memory pointed to by .IR buf , with .I n -bytes of random data. +bytes of pseudorandom data. .PP The .BR rand (3) and .BR drand48 (3) families of functions should only be used where -the quality of the random numbers is not a concern +the quality of the pseudorandom numbers is not a concern .I and there's a need for repeatability of the results. Unless you meet both of those conditions, @@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ use the functions. .SH RETURN VALUE .BR arc4random () -returns a random number. +returns a pseudorandom number. .PP .BR arc4random_uniform () -returns a random number less than +returns a pseudorandom number less than .I upper_bound for valid input, or .B 0 |