svn commit: r240708 - head/share/man/man4
David E. O'Brien
obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 19 20:42:56 UTC 2012
Author: obrien
Date: Wed Sep 19 20:42:55 2012
New Revision: 240708
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240708
Log:
Add Intel RdRand.
Modified:
head/share/man/man4/random.4
Modified: head/share/man/man4/random.4
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man4/random.4 Wed Sep 19 20:11:47 2012 (r240707)
+++ head/share/man/man4/random.4 Wed Sep 19 20:42:55 2012 (r240708)
@@ -315,11 +315,16 @@ and is an implementation of the
.Em Yarrow
algorithm by Bruce Schneier,
.Em et al .
-The only hardware implementation
-currently is for the
+The only hardware implementations
+currently are for the
.Tn VIA C3 Nehemiah
(stepping 3 or greater)
-CPU.
+CPU
+and the
+.Tn Intel
+.Dq Bull Mountain
+.Em RdRand
+instruction and underlying random number generator (RNG).
More will be added in the future.
.Pp
The author gratefully acknowledges
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