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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)
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=head1 NAME
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RAND_DRBG_get0_master,
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RAND_DRBG_get0_public,
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RAND_DRBG_get0_private
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- get access to the global RAND_DRBG instances
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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#include <openssl/rand_drbg.h>
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RAND_DRBG *RAND_DRBG_get0_master(void);
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RAND_DRBG *RAND_DRBG_get0_public(void);
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RAND_DRBG *RAND_DRBG_get0_private(void);
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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The default RAND API implementation (RAND_OpenSSL()) utilizes three
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shared DRBG instances which are accessed via the RAND API:
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The <public> and <private> DRBG are thread-local instances, which are used
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by RAND_bytes() and RAND_priv_bytes(), respectively.
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The <master> DRBG is a global instance, which is not intended to be used
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directly, but is used internally to reseed the other two instances.
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These functions here provide access to the shared DRBG instances.
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=head1 RETURN VALUES
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RAND_DRBG_get0_master() returns a pointer to the <master> DRBG instance.
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RAND_DRBG_get0_public() returns a pointer to the <public> DRBG instance.
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RAND_DRBG_get0_private() returns a pointer to the <private> DRBG instance.
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=head1 NOTES
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It is not thread-safe to access the <master> DRBG instance.
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The <public> and <private> DRBG instance can be accessed safely, because
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they are thread-local. Note however, that changes to these two instances
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apply only to the current thread.
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For that reason it is recommended not to change the settings of these
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three instances directly.
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Instead, an application should change the default settings for new DRBG instances
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at initialization time, before creating additional threads.
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During initialization, it is possible to change the reseed interval
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and reseed time interval.
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It is also possible to exchange the reseeding callbacks entirely.
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=head1 HISTORY
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The RAND_DRBG functions were added in OpenSSL 1.1.1.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<RAND_DRBG_set_callbacks(3)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG_set_reseed_defaults(3)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG_set_reseed_interval(3)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG_set_reseed_time_interval(3)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG_set_callbacks(3)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG_generate(3)>,
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L<RAND_DRBG(7)>
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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Copyright 2017-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
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Licensed under the OpenSSL license (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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