From 79eae3468ef3216f558705406485fa84c61ff505 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: deraadt <> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:31:02 +0000 Subject: repair the ARC4 story; ok jmc djm millert --- src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.3 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/lib') 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 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.26 2008/06/09 06:04:02 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: arc4random.3,v 1.27 2008/12/23 18:31:02 deraadt Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos .\" All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" Manual page, using -mandoc macros .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 9 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 23 2008 $ .Dt ARC4RANDOM 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -125,11 +125,13 @@ It was considered a trade secret. Because it was a trade secret, it obviously could not be patented. A clone of this was posted anonymously to USENET and confirmed to be equivalent by several sources who had access to the original cipher. -Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. can do -nothing about the release of the ARC4 algorithm. +Because of the trade secret situation, RSA Data Security, Inc. could +do nothing about the release of the +.Ql Alleged RC4 +algorithm. Since .Pa RC4 -used to be a trade secret, the cipher is now referred to as +was trademarked, the cipher is now referred to as .Pa ARC4 . .Pp These functions first appeared in -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g6feb