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| author | David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-07-31 06:18:34 +0000 |
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| committer | David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-07-31 06:18:34 +0000 |
| commit | e02cc8e4199b8570967ffac2647c98b9cd1f9640 (patch) | |
| tree | b913e98d65001088871c77649b87458c73506484 /lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | |
| parent | 05e1bf34619e500682f21adab15232744d939ff5 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index 28616ae048b9..66ccd55f99f0 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ is called with less than 8 bytes of state information, or if detects that the state information has been garbled, error messages are printed on the standard error output. .Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arc4random 3 , .Xr rand 3 , .Xr srand 3 , .Xr random 4 @@ -189,3 +190,6 @@ The historical implementation used to have a very weak seeding; the random sequence did not vary much with the seed. The current implementation employs a better pseudo-random number generator for the initial state calculation. +.Pp +Applications requiring cryptographic quality randomness should use +.Xr arc4random 3 . |