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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2020-06-01 17:02:54 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2020-06-01 17:03:26 -0700 |
| commit | a6ca54ccd9565b73ad998826f6791581a86b4607 (patch) | |
| tree | dfc2204fd636f823a95ded0ff8da9ea4a5ce7adb /doc/glibc-functions | |
| parent | 5a5636ae89d81dc305b2abc15c2185a4e8f1cf2f (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-a6ca54ccd9565b73ad998826f6791581a86b4607.tar.gz | |
getentropy, getrandom: compare to crypto/gc-random
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi | 4 |
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diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi index 2f66ada639..1689a7763e 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi @@ -41,3 +41,7 @@ additional techniques such as hedging.@footnote{Ristenpart T, Yilek S@. @url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/papers/sslhedge.pdf, When good randomness goes bad: virtual machine vulnerabilities and hedging deployed cryptography}. NDSS 2010.} + +Related modules include @code{getrandom}, which has a more-flexible +but more-complex API, and @code{crypto/gc-random}, which is likely a +better match for code already using the other @code{crypto} APIs. diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi index adf7aefcc5..a2a259f047 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi @@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ additional techniques such as hedging.@footnote{Ristenpart T, Yilek S@. @url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/papers/sslhedge.pdf, When good randomness goes bad: virtual machine vulnerabilities and hedging deployed cryptography}. NDSS 2010.} + +Related modules include @code{getentropy}, which has a simpler but +more-limited API, and @code{crypto/gc-random}, which is likely a +better match for code already using the other @code{crypto} APIs. |