Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:42:56 +0000 (UTC) From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r240708 - head/share/man/man4 Message-ID: <201209192042.q8JKguJi066746@svn.freebsd.org>
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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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