Re: small improvement for random.4

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Hello Yuri,

Thanks. Applied for 3.26.

Cheers,

Michael

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Yuri Kozlov <yuray@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> --- man-pages-git/man4/random.4 2010-03-26 17:46:41.000000000 +0300
> +++ /tmp/random.4       2010-07-27 12:59:14.000000000 +0400
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
>  .IR /dev/urandom
>  should be used for everything except long-lived GPG/SSL/SSH keys.
>
> -If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended above (all major
> +If a seed file is saved across reboots as recommended below (all major
>  Linux distributions have done this since 2000 at least), the output is
>  cryptographically secure against attackers without local root access as
>  soon as it is reloaded in the boot sequence, and perfectly adequate for
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Yuri Kozlov
>
>



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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
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