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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2016-12-12 17:28:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2016-12-12 17:28:04 +0100 |
| commit | 92dcaa3e2f7bf0f7f1c04cd2fb6a317df1a4e225 (patch) | |
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| parent | 341657bc9c17d3ea4546c6d998e67ca349a78e80 (diff) | |
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Add getentropy, getrandom, <sys/random.h> [BZ #17252]
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diff --git a/manual/math.texi b/manual/math.texi index 5ad8732eca..9b699f1def 100644 --- a/manual/math.texi +++ b/manual/math.texi @@ -1443,7 +1443,8 @@ is convenient when you are debugging a program, but it is unhelpful if you want the program to behave unpredictably. If you want a different pseudo-random series each time your program runs, you must specify a different seed each time. For ordinary purposes, basing the seed on the -current time works well. +current time works well. For random numbers in cryptography, +@pxref{Unpredictable Bytes}. You can obtain repeatable sequences of numbers on a particular machine type by specifying the same initial seed value for the random number |