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diff --git a/doc/man3/RAND_bytes.pod b/doc/man3/RAND_bytes.pod index c3e6aef310..284b9dbe4d 100644 --- a/doc/man3/RAND_bytes.pod +++ b/doc/man3/RAND_bytes.pod @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Deprecated: =head1 DESCRIPTION RAND_bytes() puts B<num> cryptographically strong pseudo-random bytes -into B<buf>. An error occurs if the PRNG has not been seeded with +into B<buf>. An error occurs if the CSPRNG has not been seeded with enough randomness to ensure an unpredictable byte sequence. RAND_priv_bytes() has the same semantics as RAND_bytes(). It is intended to @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ a compromise of the global generator will not affect such key generation. =head1 RETURN VALUES -RAND_bytes() nad RAND_priv_bytes() +RAND_bytes() and RAND_priv_bytes() return 1 on success, -1 if not supported by the current RAND method, or 0 on other failure. The error code can be obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)>. @@ -41,12 +41,14 @@ RAND_pseudo_bytes() was deprecated in OpenSSL 1.1.0; use RAND_bytes() instead. =head1 SEE ALSO -L<RAND_bytes(3)>, L<ERR_get_error(3)>, -L<RAND_add(3)> +L<RAND_add(3)>, +L<RAND_bytes(3)>, +L<ERR_get_error(3)>, +L<RAND(7)> =head1 COPYRIGHT -Copyright 2000-2017 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy |