openssl/doc/man7
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre f987a4dd89 man: clarify the 'random number generator must be seeded' requirement
The manual pages require for some API functions that the 'random number
generator must be seeded' before calling the function.  Initially, this
was meant literally, i.e. the OpenSSL CSPRNG had to be seeded manually
before calling these functions.

Since version 1.1.1, the CSPRNG is seeded automatically on first use,
so it's not the responsibility of the programmer anymore.  Still, he
needs to be aware that the seeding might fail.

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tmraz@fedoraproject.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/9257)

(cherry picked from commit 262c00882a)
2019-06-27 14:48:43 +02:00
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bio.pod Fix minor typo in bio.pod 2017-12-12 12:31:12 -05:00
crypto.pod Fix referenses in section 7 manuals 2016-11-11 13:06:43 +01:00
ct.pod Fix function names in ct(7) documentation 2018-12-19 19:01:45 +01:00
des_modes.pod Use 'over 2' for bullet lists. 2017-04-07 13:48:19 -04:00
Ed25519.pod Support EdDSA in apps/speed 2018-09-07 14:39:19 +08:00
evp.pod Update copyright years on all files merged since Jan 1st 2018 2018-01-09 05:49:01 +01:00
ossl_store-file.pod Document UTF-8 expectation for pass phrases passed to OSSL_STORE 2018-06-07 13:25:03 +02:00
ossl_store.pod Document UTF-8 expectation for pass phrases passed to OSSL_STORE 2018-06-07 13:25:03 +02:00
passphrase-encoding.pod doc/man7/passphrase-encoding.pod: Make consistent 2018-06-13 10:27:03 +02:00
RAND.pod man: clarify the 'random number generator must be seeded' requirement 2019-06-27 14:48:43 +02:00
RAND_DRBG.pod Update RAND_DRBG.pod 2018-09-17 02:00:19 +03:00
RSA-PSS.pod Split the scrypt and RSA-PSS into man3 and man7 pages 2018-04-13 11:55:13 +02:00
scrypt.pod docs: Fix typo EVP_PKEY_new_id -> EVP_PKEY_CTX_new_id 2018-05-04 19:52:01 +02:00
SM2.pod Add missing SM2err and fix doc nits 2018-09-07 18:12:26 +08:00
ssl.pod TLSv1.3 related changes to man pages 2018-09-01 08:45:04 +08:00
x509.pod Suggestion for improvements to x509.pod 2017-12-25 21:11:53 -06:00
X25519.pod Rename EVP_PKEY_new_private_key()/EVP_PKEY_new_public_key() 2018-03-15 12:47:27 +00:00