Commit c15ef410 authored by Pauli's avatar Pauli
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Add the prediction_resistance flag to the documentation. 



Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8678)
parent 0cbfcc39

doc/man3/RAND_DRBG_reseed.pod

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@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ RAND_DRBG_set_reseed_defaults 
 #include <openssl/rand_drbg.h>



 int RAND_DRBG_reseed(RAND_DRBG *drbg,

                      const unsigned char *adin, size_t adinlen);

                      const unsigned char *adin, size_t adinlen,

                      int prediction_resistance);



 int RAND_DRBG_set_reseed_interval(RAND_DRBG *drbg,

                                   unsigned int interval);
@@ -37,6 +38,10 @@ and mixing in the specified additional data provided in the buffer B<adin> 
of length B<adinlen>.

The additional data can be omitted by setting B<adin> to NULL and B<adinlen>

to 0.

An immediate reseeding from a live entropy source can be requested by setting

the B<prediction_resistance> flag to 1.

This feature is not implemented yet, so reseeding with prediction resistance

requested will always fail.



RAND_DRBG_set_reseed_interval()

sets the reseed interval of the B<drbg>, which is the maximum allowed number