From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 00:02:54 +0000 (-0700) Subject: getentropy, getrandom: compare to crypto/gc-random X-Git-Tag: v1.0~3984 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6ca54ccd9565b73ad998826f6791581a86b4607;p=gnulib.git getentropy, getrandom: compare to crypto/gc-random --- diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi index 2f66ada639..1689a7763e 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getentropy.texi @@ -41,3 +41,7 @@ additional techniques such as hedging.@footnote{Ristenpart T, Yilek S@. @url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/papers/sslhedge.pdf, When good randomness goes bad: virtual machine vulnerabilities and hedging deployed cryptography}. NDSS 2010.} + +Related modules include @code{getrandom}, which has a more-flexible +but more-complex API, and @code{crypto/gc-random}, which is likely a +better match for code already using the other @code{crypto} APIs. diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi index adf7aefcc5..a2a259f047 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getrandom.texi @@ -49,3 +49,7 @@ additional techniques such as hedging.@footnote{Ristenpart T, Yilek S@. @url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rist/papers/sslhedge.pdf, When good randomness goes bad: virtual machine vulnerabilities and hedging deployed cryptography}. NDSS 2010.} + +Related modules include @code{getentropy}, which has a simpler but +more-limited API, and @code{crypto/gc-random}, which is likely a +better match for code already using the other @code{crypto} APIs.