>From af3ff63e457ddb6ba29295e3d5b78a93d834cb8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 17:02:54 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] getentropy, getrandom: compare to crypto/gc-random --- doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi | 4 ++++ doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi index 2f66ada63..1689a7763 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi @@ -41,3 +41,7 @@ additional techniques such as hedging.@footnote{Ristenpart T, Yilek S@. @url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/papers/sslhedge.pdf, When good randomness goes bad: virtual machine vulnerabilities and hedging deployed cryptography}. NDSS 2010.} + +Related modules include @code{getrandom}, which has a more-flexible +but more-complex API, and @code{crypto/gc-random}, which is likely a +better match for code already using the other @code{crypto} APIs. diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi index adf7aefcc..a2a259f04 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi @@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ additional techniques such as hedging.@footnote{Ristenpart T, Yilek S@. @url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/papers/sslhedge.pdf, When good randomness goes bad: virtual machine vulnerabilities and hedging deployed cryptography}. NDSS 2010.} + +Related modules include @code{getentropy}, which has a simpler but +more-limited API, and @code{crypto/gc-random}, which is likely a +better match for code already using the other @code{crypto} APIs. -- 2.17.1