From 2e3fd543370c6aa82d7c8bc57cdf5b58248efbfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?Lutz=20J=C3=A4nicke?= Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:24:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add passage to manual page actually reflecting the usage of the contents of "buf" when calling RAND_*bytes(). --- doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod b/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod index ce6329ce54..34f8cd2544 100644 --- a/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod +++ b/doc/crypto/RAND_bytes.pod @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ unpredictable. They can be used for non-cryptographic purposes and for certain purposes in cryptographic protocols, but usually not for key generation etc. +The contents of B is mixed into the entropy pool before retrieving +the new pseudo-random bytes unless disabled at compile time. + =head1 RETURN VALUES RAND_bytes() returns 1 on success, 0 otherwise. The error code can be -- 2.25.1