Commit f7bef277 authored by Dr. Matthias St. Pierre's avatar Dr. Matthias St. Pierre
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Minor corrections for the RAND_DRBG API documentation 



- added some explaining text to a sentence that lost its context.
- removed mention of per-ssl drbg
- fix whitespace errors

Reviewed-by: default avatarRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5804)
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doc/man7/RAND_DRBG.pod

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You want to use your own private DRBG instances, similar to how it

is currently done in the ssl library.

You want to use your own private DRBG instances.

Multiple DRBG instances which are accessed only by a single thread provide

additional security (because their internal states are independent) and

better scalability in multithreaded applications (because they don't need
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The method L<RAND_DRBG_bytes(3)> is a convenience method wrapping the

L<RAND_DRBG_generate(3)> function, which serves the actual request for

random data.

The usual way to obtain random bytes is to call RAND_bytes(...) or

RAND_priv_bytes(...). These calls are roughly equivalent to calling

RAND_DRBG_bytes(<public>, ...) and RAND_DRBG_bytes(<private>, ...),

respectively. The method L<RAND_DRBG_bytes(3)> is a convenience method

wrapping the L<RAND_DRBG_generate(3)> function, which serves the actual

request for random data.



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