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While stereotyped repetitions are frowned upon in literature, they serve a useful purpose in manual pages, because it is easier for the user to find certain information if it is always presented in the same way. For that reason, this commit harmonizes the varying formulations in the HISTORY section about which functions, flags, etc. were added in which OpenSSL version. It also attempts to make the pod files more grep friendly by avoiding to insert line breaks between the symbol names and the corresponding version number in which they were introduced (wherever possible). Some punctuation and typographical errors were fixed on the way. Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7854)
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=pod
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=head1 NAME
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RAND_bytes, RAND_priv_bytes, RAND_pseudo_bytes - generate random data
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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#include <openssl/rand.h>
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int RAND_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num);
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int RAND_priv_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num);
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Deprecated since OpenSSL 1.1.0, can be hidden entirely by defining
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B<OPENSSL_API_COMPAT> with a suitable version value, see
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L<openssl_user_macros(7)>:
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int RAND_pseudo_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num);
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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RAND_bytes() puts B<num> cryptographically strong pseudo-random bytes
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into B<buf>.
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RAND_priv_bytes() has the same semantics as RAND_bytes(). It is intended to
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be used for generating values that should remain private. If using the
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default RAND_METHOD, this function uses a separate "private" PRNG
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instance so that a compromise of the "public" PRNG instance will not
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affect the secrecy of these private values, as described in L<RAND(7)>
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and L<RAND_DRBG(7)>.
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=head1 NOTES
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Always check the error return value of RAND_bytes() and
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RAND_priv_bytes() and do not take randomness for granted: an error occurs
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if the CSPRNG has not been seeded with enough randomness to ensure an
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unpredictable byte sequence.
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=head1 RETURN VALUES
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RAND_bytes() and RAND_priv_bytes()
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return 1 on success, -1 if not supported by the current
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RAND method, or 0 on other failure. The error code can be
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obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)>.
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=head1 HISTORY
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=over 2
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=item *
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RAND_pseudo_bytes() was deprecated in OpenSSL 1.1.0; use RAND_bytes() instead.
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=item *
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The RAND_priv_bytes() function was added in OpenSSL 1.1.1.
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=back
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<RAND_add(3)>,
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L<RAND_bytes(3)>,
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L<RAND_priv_bytes(3)>,
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L<ERR_get_error(3)>,
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L<RAND(7)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG(7)>
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
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this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
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in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
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L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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=cut
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