From 01c634c3cc9e76d4b66fa7904604f2a32d46ef5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gaynor Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:47:54 -0400 Subject: Make a paragraph slightly more clear (#2874) --- docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/hazmat/backends') diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst index 03ac5570..f488a8bc 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) and greater. Earlier versions may work but are OS random engine ---------------- -OpenSSL uses a user-space CSPRNG that is seeded from system random ( +By default OpenSSL uses a user-space CSPRNG that is seeded from system random ( ``/dev/urandom`` or ``CryptGenRandom``). This CSPRNG is not reseeded automatically when a process calls ``fork()``. This can result in situations where two different processes can return similar or identical keys and -- cgit v1.2.3