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Diffstat (limited to 'include/crypto/rng.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/crypto/rng.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/crypto/rng.h b/include/crypto/rng.h index f8224cc390f8..d451b54b322a 100644 --- a/include/crypto/rng.h +++ b/include/crypto/rng.h @@ -169,12 +169,11 @@ static inline int crypto_rng_get_bytes(struct crypto_rng *tfm, * * The reset function completely re-initializes the random number generator * referenced by the cipher handle by clearing the current state. The new state - * is initialized with the caller provided seed or automatically, depending - * on the random number generator type (the ANSI X9.31 RNG requires - * caller-provided seed, the SP800-90A DRBGs perform an automatic seeding). - * The seed is provided as a parameter to this function call. The provided seed - * should have the length of the seed size defined for the random number - * generator as defined by crypto_rng_seedsize. + * is initialized with the caller provided seed or automatically, depending on + * the random number generator type. (The SP800-90A DRBGs perform an automatic + * seeding.) The seed is provided as a parameter to this function call. The + * provided seed should have the length of the seed size defined for the random + * number generator as defined by crypto_rng_seedsize. * * Return: 0 if the setting of the key was successful; < 0 if an error occurred */ |