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# 267654 19-Jun-2014 gjb

Copy stable/9 to releng/9.3 as part of the 9.3-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 240858 23-Sep-2012 zeising

MFC r240205:

Change the link pointing to more information about the Yarrow algorithm, the
current link points to a irrelevant catchall site.

PR: docs/171411
Submitted by: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec@ijs.si> (pr), zeising (patch)
Approved by: joel (mentor)


# 225736 22-Sep-2011 kensmith

Copy head to stable/9 as part of 9.0-RELEASE release cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)


# 213573 08-Oct-2010 uqs

mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls

They have no effect when coming in pairs, or before .Bl/.Bd


# 162404 18-Sep-2006 ru

Markup fixes.


# 160496 19-Jul-2006 brueffer

- Bring kern.random output closer to reality
- Remove kern.random.sys.burst, it's no longer available
- Document kern.random.sys.harvest.swi (1)

PR: 100167 (1)
MFC after: 3 days


# 139214 22-Dec-2004 keramida

Fix a couple of typos.

PR: docs/75410
Submitted by: "Paul A.Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
MFC after: 3 days


# 136085 03-Oct-2004 simon

Add a SYNOPSIS section for io(4), mem(4), or random(4), since they are
now optional devices.

MFC after: 1 week


# 131594 04-Jul-2004 ru

Sort SEE ALSO references (in dictionary order, ignoring case).


# 131530 03-Jul-2004 ru

Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks and double whitespaces.


# 130582 16-Jun-2004 ru

Assorted markup, spelling, and grammar fixes.


# 128061 09-Apr-2004 markm

Document the recent upgrade to the entropy device WRT hardware
generators.


# 124759 20-Jan-2004 schweikh

Slightly rearrange wording to deconfuse our man.cgi.

PR: 60743
Submitted by: Lucas <aspiesrule@mcleodusa.net>
MFC after: 2 weeks


# 111447 24-Feb-2003 ru

mdoc(7) police: Scheduled sweep.


# 111326 23-Feb-2003 dwmalone

A few improvements suggested by nectar.


# 111320 23-Feb-2003 dwmalone

Add a section on different types of randomness, what the library
functions we provide are good for and how /dev/random fits into
this picture.

Reviewed by: markm


# 79727 14-Jul-2001 schweikh

Removed whitespace at end-of-line; no content changes. I simply did
cd src/share; find man[1-9] -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/[ \t]+$//'

BTW, what editors are the culprits? I'm using vim and it shows
me whitespace at EOL in troff files with a thick blue block...

Reviewed by: Silence from cvs diff -b
MFC after: 7 days


# 74153 12-Mar-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: misc formatting fixes.


# 74077 10-Mar-2001 markm

Update for /dev/random improvements.


# 73872 06-Mar-2001 markm

Fix markup.

Submitted by: ru


# 73378 03-Mar-2001 markm

Minor fixes. ManPolice stuff, and a clarification of interrupt
harvesting.


# 72929 22-Feb-2001 green

Typo: "interrupt" -> "harvest_interrupt"


# 72708 19-Feb-2001 markm

Cosmetic and spelling fixes. Includes some MDOC policework.

Submitted by: ru (mostly)


# 72671 18-Feb-2001 markm

Document the entropy device.

If you want to know how to harvest network traffic and interrupts,
READ HERE!