Module Name: src
Committed By: riastradh
Date: Mon Aug 17 00:49:53 UTC 2020
Modified Files:
src/share/man/man9: cprng.9
Log Message:
Update cprng(9) man page for CTR_DRBG -> Hash_DRBG change last year.
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diff -u src/share/man/man9/cprng.9:1.11 src/share/man/man9/cprng.9:1.12
--- src/share/man/man9/cprng.9:1.11 Tue Mar 24 08:48:31 2020
+++ src/share/man/man9/cprng.9 Mon Aug 17 00:49:53 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: cprng.9,v 1.11 2020/03/24 08:48:31 skrll Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: cprng.9,v 1.12 2020/08/17 00:49:53 riastradh Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011-2015 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd March 24, 2020
+.Dd August 16, 2020
.Dt CPRNG 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -116,14 +116,14 @@ functions.
.Bl -tag -width abcd
.It Fn cprng_strong_create "name" "ipl" "flags"
Create an instance of the cprng_strong generator.
-This generator currently implements the NIST SP 800-90A CTR_DRBG with
-AES-128 as the block transform.
+This generator currently implements the NIST SP 800-90A Hash_DRBG with
+SHA-256 as the hash function.
.Pp
The
.Fa name
argument is used to
.Dq personalize
-the CTR_DRBG according to the standard, so that its initial state will
+the Hash_DRBG according to the standard, so that its initial state will
depend both on seed material from the entropy pool and also on the
personalization string (name).
.Pp
@@ -296,8 +296,8 @@ The
.Nm cprng_strong
functions are implemented in
.Pa sys/kern/subr_cprng.c ,
-and use the NIST SP 800-90A CTR_DRBG implementation in
-.Pa sys/crypto/nist_ctr_drbg .
+and use the NIST SP 800-90A Hash_DRBG implementation in
+.Pa sys/crypto/nist_hash_drbg .
The
.Nm cprng_fast
functions are implemented in
