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author | deraadt <> | 2008-12-23 18:31:02 +0000 |
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committer | deraadt <> | 2008-12-23 18:31:02 +0000 |
commit | 83483f908c4b6c5c812c6388c7929c6f10a8ef28 (patch) | |
tree | adaffa8fe7c438418defecb85d9de8e5bf9c5f64 /src | |
parent | 4840888f971b6915e7fe1f599c97149e6ab0985f (diff) | |
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repair the ARC4 story; ok jmc djm millert
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-rw-r--r-- | src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 b/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 index 2a12c6d94e..d9f07ade6e 100644 --- a/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 +++ b/src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | |||
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ | |||
1 | .\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.26 2008/06/09 06:04:02 jmc Exp $ | 1 | .\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 deraadt Exp $ |
2 | .\" | 2 | .\" |
3 | .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> | 3 | .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> |
4 | .\" All rights reserved. | 4 | .\" All rights reserved. |
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ | |||
30 | .\" | 30 | .\" |
31 | .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros | 31 | .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros |
32 | .\" | 32 | .\" |
33 | .Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2008 $ | 33 | .Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $ |
34 | .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 | 34 | .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 |
35 | .Os | 35 | .Os |
36 | .Sh NAME | 36 | .Sh NAME |
@@ -125,11 +125,13 @@ It was considered a trade secret. | |||
125 | Because it was a trade secret, it obviously could not be patented. | 125 | Because it was a trade secret, it obviously could not be patented. |
126 | A clone of this was posted anonymously to USENET and confirmed to | 126 | A clone of this was posted anonymously to USENET and confirmed to |
127 | be equivalent by several sources who had access to the original cipher. | 127 | be equivalent by several sources who had access to the original cipher. |
128 | Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. can do | 128 | Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. could |
129 | nothing about the release of the ARC4 algorithm. | 129 | do nothing about the release of the |
130 | .Ql Alleged RC4 | ||
131 | algorithm. | ||
130 | Since | 132 | Since |
131 | .Pa RC4 | 133 | .Pa RC4 |
132 | used to be a trade secret, the cipher is now referred to as | 134 | was trademarked, the cipher is now referred to as |
133 | .Pa ARC4 . | 135 | .Pa ARC4 . |
134 | .Pp | 136 | .Pp |
135 | These functions first appeared in | 137 | These functions first appeared in |