pointless referencing .h files in SYNOPSIS

delete uneducated commentary

Update page a little, in particular try to describe the underlying mechanisms
in simple terms (mostly as a yardstick for others to be measured against):
Entropy data stored previously is provide

Update page a little, in particular try to describe the underlying mechanisms
in simple terms (mostly as a yardstick for others to be measured against):
Entropy data stored previously is provided to the kernel during the boot
sequence and used as inner-state of a stream cipher. High quality data
is available immediately upon kernel startup. System activity (such as
disk, network, and clock device interrupts), and hardware random
generator output is collected, whitened with a crc and hash, then
periodically folded together with stream cipher inner-state and outer-
state to create a new inner state. Reads from all consumers (including
the kernel itself, which makes many requests per second) are sliced from
the same output stream, which carves the stream cipher output
unpredictably and helps improve forward and backtracking protection
beyond the strength of the stream cipher.
some discussion with djm. There may be more updates.

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replace last instances of /dev/arandom with /dev/urandom

Full rewrite:
Remove much that was outdated, misleading, or irrelevant.
Add some lacking information instead.

Joint work with deraadt@,
using much feedback from guenther@ and naddy@,
OK deraadt@ jmc

Full rewrite:
Remove much that was outdated, misleading, or irrelevant.
Add some lacking information instead.

Joint work with deraadt@,
using much feedback from guenther@ and naddy@,
OK deraadt@ jmc@ naddy@.

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use .In rather than .Fd #include

update and refine to reflect current status and best practices.

all the devices output same types of data

tweak previous;

update random(4) and arc4random(9) manual pages

tweak previous; ok deraadt

document that all *random nodes supply data now

the random ioctl stuff is not very useful. I want to see all the
non-essential parts of rnd.c removed so that we can keep our eye on
what the code should be doing.
ok tedu who had a similar diff in

the random ioctl stuff is not very useful. I want to see all the
non-essential parts of rnd.c removed so that we can keep our eye on
what the code should be doing.
ok tedu who had a similar diff in the past

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remove most mentions of the deprecated random devices. ok deraadt

prandom dies

some missing articles; from Pierre Riteau

convert to new .Dd format;

Driver for the AMD Geode LX series processor security block.
Currently just uses the RNG; AES support to be added later.

ok deraadt@

- section reorder
- some macro fixes
- kill whitespace at EOL

three four kill...

typos;

indent section about arc4random; ok miod@

Incomplete section 4 mi manual page cleanup.
- make configuration lines match GENERIC files
- more Xr (hopefully usefule Xr)
- never mention intro(4) on non-physical devices (i.e. protocols), always

Incomplete section 4 mi manual page cleanup.
- make configuration lines match GENERIC files
- more Xr (hopefully usefule Xr)
- never mention intro(4) on non-physical devices (i.e. protocols), always
mention it for physical devices
- random text style and quoting fixes
- drivers ported from FreeBSD did mention rc.conf instead of hostname.if as
the place to put mediaopt
- some .Tn UNIX -> .Ox replacements
- etc, etc...

reviewd in part by deraadt@ (until he got bored of this)

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Powered by @mantoya:
o) start new sentence on a new line;
o) minor mdoc fixes;
millert@ ok

Tip of the day: www.mpechismazohist.com

o) remove unnecessary .Pp;
o) remove unnecessary .Nm args;
o) closes .Bl;
o) .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS;
o) sort SEE ALSO;
o) better -mdoc style;
o) typos;

aaron@ ok.