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Minor corrections for the RAND_DRBG API documentation

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- added some explaining text to a sentence that lost its context.
- removed mention of per-ssl drbg
- fix whitespace errors

Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/5804)
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Dr. Matthias St. Pierre 2018-03-30 01:07:00 +02:00
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@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ Typical examples for such special use cases are the following:
=item *
You want to use your own private DRBG instances, similar to how it
is currently done in the ssl library.
You want to use your own private DRBG instances.
Multiple DRBG instances which are accessed only by a single thread provide
additional security (because their internal states are independent) and
better scalability in multithreaded applications (because they don't need
@ -144,10 +143,12 @@ together and are being used.
+------------------+ +------------------------------------+
The method L<RAND_DRBG_bytes(3)> is a convenience method wrapping the
L<RAND_DRBG_generate(3)> function, which serves the actual request for
random data.
The usual way to obtain random bytes is to call RAND_bytes(...) or
RAND_priv_bytes(...). These calls are roughly equivalent to calling
RAND_DRBG_bytes(<public>, ...) and RAND_DRBG_bytes(<private>, ...),
respectively. The method L<RAND_DRBG_bytes(3)> is a convenience method
wrapping the L<RAND_DRBG_generate(3)> function, which serves the actual
request for random data.
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