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.\" $NetBSD: rnd.9,v 1.19 2011/12/17 20:05:38 tls Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: rnd.9,v 1.20 2011/12/17 21:25:12 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd September 16, 2008
.Dd December 17, 2011
.Dt RND 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ the kernel entropy pool, which provides key material for the
.Xr cprng 9
and
.Xr rnd 4
.Pa (/dev/random) interfaces.
.Pa ( /dev/random )
interfaces.
.Pp
Ideally the first argument
.Fa rnd_source
@ -196,16 +197,15 @@ pool.
Folding the data in half prevents the caller to derive the
actual hash of the pool, preventing some attacks.
.Pp
.Pp
In the NetBSD kernel, values should be extracted from the entropy
pool
In the
.Nx
kernel, values should be extracted from the entropy pool
.Em only
via the
.Xr cprng 9
interface. Direct access to the entropy pool is unsupported and
may be dangerous. There is no supported API for direct access to
the output of the entropy pool.
.Pp
interface.
Direct access to the entropy pool is unsupported and may be dangerous.
There is no supported API for direct access to the output of the entropy pool.
.\" .Sh ERRORS
.Sh FILES
These functions are declared in src/sys/sys/rnd.h and defined in