arc4random_stir() does not use /dev/arandom anymore, but sysctl kern.arandom

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3
index 9c9ab8705c..db9405aa78 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.24 2008/03/16 22:18:24 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.25 2008/06/08 18:37:09 deraadt Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 16 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 8 2008 $
 .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ as it avoids "modulo bias" when the upper bound is not a power of two.
 .Pp
 The
 .Fn arc4random_stir
-function reads data from
-.Pa /dev/arandom
+function reads data using
+.Xr sysctl 2
+from
+.Pa kern.arandom
 and uses it to permute the S-Boxes via
 .Fn arc4random_addrandom .
 .Pp