Refer to NIST SP 800-90C section 5.4 "Prediction Resistance.l"
This requires the seed sources to be approved as entropy sources, after
which they should be considered live sources as per section 5.3.2 "Live
Entropy Source Availability."
Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/8647)
Fixed a minor typo while reading the documentation.
I agree that this contribution is trivial can be freely used.
CLA: trivial
Reviewed-by: Nicola Tuveri <nic.tuv@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7221)
- added some explaining text to a sentence that lost its context.
- removed mention of per-ssl drbg
- fix whitespace errors
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5804)
The RAND_DRBG API was added in PR #5462 and modified by PR #5547.
This commit adds the corresponding documention.
Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5461)