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Cross-reference arc4random(3).

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David Schultz 2003-07-31 06:18:34 +00:00
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@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ is called with less than 8 bytes of state information, or if
detects that the state information has been garbled, error
messages are printed on the standard error output.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr arc4random 3 ,
.Xr rand 3 ,
.Xr srand 3 ,
.Xr random 4
@ -189,3 +190,6 @@ The historical implementation used to have a very weak seeding; the
random sequence did not vary much with the seed.
The current implementation employs a better pseudo-random number
generator for the initial state calculation.
.Pp
Applications requiring cryptographic quality randomness should use
.Xr arc4random 3 .