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Diffstat (limited to 'upstream/archlinux/man1/openssl-rand.1ssl')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/upstream/archlinux/man1/openssl-rand.1ssl b/upstream/archlinux/man1/openssl-rand.1ssl index 5f4c6eea..24f413ff 100644 --- a/upstream/archlinux/man1/openssl-rand.1ssl +++ b/upstream/archlinux/man1/openssl-rand.1ssl @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "OPENSSL-RAND 1ssl" -.TH OPENSSL-RAND 1ssl 2024-01-30 3.2.1 OpenSSL +.TH OPENSSL-RAND 1ssl 2024-04-28 3.3.0 OpenSSL .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -75,11 +75,19 @@ openssl\-rand \- generate pseudo\-random bytes [\fB\-provider\fR \fIname\fR] [\fB\-provider\-path\fR \fIpath\fR] [\fB\-propquery\fR \fIpropq\fR] -\&\fInum\fR +\&\fInum\fR[K|M|G|T] .SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" This command generates \fInum\fR random bytes using a cryptographically -secure pseudo random number generator (CSPRNG). +secure pseudo random number generator (CSPRNG). A suffix [K|M|G|T] may be +appended to the num value to indicate the requested value be scaled as a +multiple of KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB respectively. Note that suffixes are case +sensitive, and that the suffixes represent binary multiples +(K = 1024 bytes, M = 1024*1024 bytes, etc). +.PP +The string 'max' may be substituted for a numerical value in num, to request the +maximum number of bytes the CSPRNG can produce per instantiation. Currently, +this is restricted to 2^61 bytes as per NIST SP 800\-90C. .PP The random bytes are generated using the \fBRAND_bytes\fR\|(3) function, which provides a security level of 256 bits, provided it managed to |