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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-05-17 22:44:35 -0500
committerPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-05-17 22:44:35 -0500
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Merge pull request #1053 from alex/long-lines-docs
Word wrap some long lines in teh docs
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@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ where two different processes can return similar or identical keys and
compromise the security of the system.
The approach this project has chosen to mitigate this vulnerability is to
-include an engine that replaces the OpenSSL default CSPRNG with one that sources
-its entropy from ``/dev/urandom`` on UNIX-like operating systems and uses
-``CryptGenRandom`` on Windows. This method of pulling from the system pool
+include an engine that replaces the OpenSSL default CSPRNG with one that
+sources its entropy from ``/dev/urandom`` on UNIX-like operating systems and
+uses ``CryptGenRandom`` on Windows. This method of pulling from the system pool
allows us to avoid potential issues with `initializing the RNG`_ as well as
protecting us from the ``fork()`` weakness.
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ On Windows the implementation of ``CryptGenRandom`` depends on which version of
the operation system you are using. See the `Microsoft documentation`_ for more
details.
-Linux uses its own PRNG design. ``/dev/urandom`` is a non-blocking source seeded
-from the same pool as ``/dev/random``.
+Linux uses its own PRNG design. ``/dev/urandom`` is a non-blocking source
+seeded from the same pool as ``/dev/random``.
.. _`OpenSSL`: https://www.openssl.org/