Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:00:24 GMT From: "Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/101564: man 4 random has a URL as reference Message-ID: <200608071000.k77A0O1h018928@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200608071000.k77A0U50011737@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 101564
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: man 4 random has a URL as reference
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 07 10:00:30 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Dr. Markus Waldeck
>Release: 6.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
There a two problems.
1. It is inconvenient to find a URL in a man page which requires online access!
2. man 4 random claims that:
The other variables are explained in the paper describing the Yarrow
algorithm at http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html.
These variables are all limited in terms of the values they may contain:
kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval [4..64]
kern.random.yarrow.bins [2..16]
kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh [64..256]
kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh [64..256]
kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh [1..5]
Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables.
>How-To-Repeat:
man 4 random
>Fix:
Add a useful explanation!
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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