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Add passage to manual page actually reflecting the usage of the

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contents of "buf" when calling RAND_*bytes().
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Lutz Jänicke 2007-09-20 07:24:45 +00:00
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@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ unpredictable. They can be used for non-cryptographic purposes and for
certain purposes in cryptographic protocols, but usually not for key
generation etc.
The contents of B<buf> is mixed into the entropy pool before retrieving
the new pseudo-random bytes unless disabled at compile time.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
RAND_bytes() returns 1 on success, 0 otherwise. The error code can be