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Revision 1.27, Sun Jan 9 00:06:50 2011 UTC (13 years, 5 months ago) by deraadt
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CVS Tags: HEAD
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update random(4) and arc4random(9) manual pages

Revision 1.26 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sat Oct 2 15:58:30 2010 UTC (13 years, 8 months ago) by tedu
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srandom device no longer provides "strong" random data

Revision 1.25 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Mon Jun 9 16:00:53 2008 UTC (16 years ago) by djm
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CVS Tags: OPENBSD_4_8_BASE, OPENBSD_4_8, OPENBSD_4_7_BASE, OPENBSD_4_7, OPENBSD_4_6_BASE, OPENBSD_4_6, OPENBSD_4_5_BASE, OPENBSD_4_5, OPENBSD_4_4_BASE, OPENBSD_4_4
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man bits for arc4random_bytes => arc4random_buf rename; ok deraadt@

Revision 1.24 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Mar 2 22:30:05 2008 UTC (16 years, 3 months ago) by djm
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improve wording - from deraadt@

Revision 1.23 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Mar 2 21:29:07 2008 UTC (16 years, 3 months ago) by djm
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Add a arc4random_uniform() that returns a uniformly distributed number
in the range 0 <= x < upper_bound

Please use this new API instead of "arc4random() % upper_bound", as it
avoids the "modulo bias" that favours small results when upper_bound is
not a power of two.

feedback deraadt@ mcbride@; ok deraadt@

Revision 1.22 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu May 31 19:20:01 2007 UTC (17 years ago) by jmc
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convert to new .Dd format;

Revision 1.21 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Mon Jun 12 09:45:36 2006 UTC (17 years, 11 months ago) by mbalmer
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time delta -> timedelta

disc'ed & ok jmc

Revision 1.20 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Mon Aug 1 05:31:49 2005 UTC (18 years, 10 months ago) by djm
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CVS Tags: OPENBSD_3_9_BASE, OPENBSD_3_9, OPENBSD_3_8_BASE, OPENBSD_3_8
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expose arc4random_bytes() API; ok deraadt@

Revision 1.19 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Apr 4 13:19:36 2004 UTC (20 years, 2 months ago) by jmc
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.br workaround no longer necessary;

Revision 1.18 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Mar 14 11:34:53 2004 UTC (20 years, 2 months ago) by mickey
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grammer; from jmc@

Revision 1.17 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Mar 14 09:11:10 2004 UTC (20 years, 2 months ago) by mickey
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add the caveats section

Revision 1.16 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Wed Jun 4 04:43:56 2003 UTC (21 years ago) by deraadt
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CVS Tags: OPENBSD_3_4_BASE, OPENBSD_3_4
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more 3/4 cleanups for lazy developers

Revision 1.15 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Apr 22 04:04:25 2003 UTC (21 years, 1 month ago) by jmc
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.Fn for functions, better spacing;

ok mickey@

Revision 1.14 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu Apr 17 13:41:30 2003 UTC (21 years, 1 month ago) by mickey
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his is wrong

Revision 1.13, Thu Apr 17 10:44:48 2003 UTC (21 years, 1 month ago) by jmc
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- random.9 changed to arc4random.9
- MLINKS updated to point to arc4random.9
- random.9 remains as link to kern.9

ok miod@

Revision 1.12 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Mon May 27 01:59:58 2002 UTC (22 years ago) by deraadt
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kill unused arc4random_8() API

Revision 1.11 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Fri Sep 28 16:02:52 2001 UTC (22 years, 8 months ago) by heko
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Typo; spotted by Jussi Laako <jussi@jlaako.pp.fi>
ok mickey@, dm@

Revision 1.10 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Fri Dec 22 00:13:34 2000 UTC (23 years, 5 months ago) by avsm
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more typo fixes; aaron@ ok

Revision 1.9 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu Oct 12 18:06:02 2000 UTC (23 years, 7 months ago) by aaron
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General man page cleanups, mostly to remove trailing whitespace, hard
sentence breaks, and other such things.

Revision 1.8 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Wed Apr 26 19:15:13 2000 UTC (24 years, 1 month ago) by mickey
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some grammar, and xr pchb(4)

Revision 1.7 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Apr 11 21:00:47 2000 UTC (24 years, 2 months ago) by mickey
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current

Revision 1.6 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Wed Dec 15 16:13:20 1999 UTC (24 years, 5 months ago) by ericj
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fix declarations

Revision 1.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun May 23 14:11:40 1999 UTC (25 years ago) by aaron
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remove argument from .Os macros so value in /usr/share/tmac/mdoc/doc-common
is used instead; kwesterback@home.com

Revision 1.4 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun May 16 19:57:47 1999 UTC (25 years ago) by alex
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Cleanup xrefs under SEE ALSO.  Specifically:

  - Sort xrefs by section, and then alphabetically.
  - Add missing commas between xref items.
  - Remove commas from the last xref entry.
  - Remove duplicate entries.

Revision 1.3 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue May 19 22:54:59 1998 UTC (26 years ago) by jason
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spelling & Xr's

Revision 1.2 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Sun Jun 15 06:48:14 1997 UTC (26 years, 11 months ago) by mickey
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update

Revision 1.1 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Dec 17 22:56:04 1996 UTC (27 years, 5 months ago) by millert
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CVS Tags: OPENBSD_2_1_BASE, OPENBSD_2_1

rnd -> random doncha know

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