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| author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2016-04-21 18:47:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2016-04-21 17:47:54 -0500 |
| commit | 01c634c3cc9e76d4b66fa7904604f2a32d46ef5d (patch) | |
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Make a paragraph slightly more clear (#2874)
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diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst index 03ac5570..f488a8bc 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) and greater. Earlier versions may work but are OS random engine ---------------- -OpenSSL uses a user-space CSPRNG that is seeded from system random ( +By default OpenSSL uses a user-space CSPRNG that is seeded from system random ( ``/dev/urandom`` or ``CryptGenRandom``). This CSPRNG is not reseeded automatically when a process calls ``fork()``. This can result in situations where two different processes can return similar or identical keys and |