openssl/doc/man3/RAND_bytes.pod
Dr. Matthias St. Pierre a73d990e2b Add documentation for the RAND_DRBG API
The RAND_DRBG API was added in PR #5462 and modified by PR #5547.
This commit adds the corresponding documention.

Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5461)
2018-03-30 00:10:38 +02:00

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=pod
=head1 NAME
RAND_bytes, RAND_priv_bytes, RAND_pseudo_bytes - generate random data
=head1 SYNOPSIS
#include <openssl/rand.h>
int RAND_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num);
int RAND_priv_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num);
Deprecated:
#if OPENSSL_API_COMPAT < 0x10100000L
int RAND_pseudo_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num);
#endif
=head1 DESCRIPTION
RAND_bytes() puts B<num> cryptographically strong pseudo-random bytes
into B<buf>. An error occurs if the CSPRNG has not been seeded with
enough randomness to ensure an unpredictable byte sequence.
RAND_priv_bytes() has the same semantics as RAND_bytes(). It is intended to
be used for generating long-term private keys. If using the default
RAND_METHOD, this function uses a separate instance of the PRNG so that
a compromise of the global generator will not affect such key generation.
=head1 RETURN VALUES
RAND_bytes() and RAND_priv_bytes()
return 1 on success, -1 if not supported by the current
RAND method, or 0 on other failure. The error code can be
obtained by L<ERR_get_error(3)>.
=head1 HISTORY
RAND_pseudo_bytes() was deprecated in OpenSSL 1.1.0; use RAND_bytes() instead.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<RAND_add(3)>,
L<RAND_bytes(3)>,
L<ERR_get_error(3)>,
L<RAND(7)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License"). You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.
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