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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