Commit f987a4dd authored by Dr. Matthias St. Pierre's avatar Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
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man: clarify the 'random number generator must be seeded' requirement



The manual pages require for some API functions that the 'random number
generator must be seeded' before calling the function.  Initially, this
was meant literally, i.e. the OpenSSL CSPRNG had to be seeded manually
before calling these functions.

Since version 1.1.1, the CSPRNG is seeded automatically on first use,
so it's not the responsibility of the programmer anymore.  Still, he
needs to be aware that the seeding might fail.

Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9257)

(cherry picked from commit 262c00882a2fd7cf16672bf467a86f75b4098a7c)
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