Use comment from md_rand.c in rand.pod

diff --git a/crypto/rand/md_rand.c b/crypto/rand/md_rand.c
index d6f47b6e9d7b879afc6f64fff70446adfeedb2c0..2836a4d40976346cf9b409988a7a721a718a9a2a 100644 (file)
--- a/crypto/rand/md_rand.c
+++ b/crypto/rand/md_rand.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ static void ssleay_rand_add(const void *buf, int num, int add)
         *
         * The input is chopped up into units of 16 bytes (or less for
         * the last block).  Each of these blocks is run through the hash
-        * function as follow:  The data passed to the hash function
+        * function as follows:  The data passed to the hash function
         * is the current 'md', the same number of bytes from the 'state'
         * (the location determined by in incremented looping index) as
         * the current 'block', the new key data 'block', and 'count'

diff --git a/doc/crypto/rand.pod b/doc/crypto/rand.pod
index baddd4379c898cef40b45cd6c224c2d40d55f4f7..588b082e7c67a2482e4c211f5eed845c83f7d1eb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/crypto/rand.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/rand.pod
@@ -106,13 +106,16 @@ working hash function ('md') and a counter ('count').
 Whenever seed data is added, it is inserted into the 'state' as
 follows.
 
-The input is chopped up into units of 16 bytes (or less for the last
-block).  Each of these blocks is run through the hash function.  The
-data passed to the hash function is the current 'md', the same number
-of bytes from the 'state' (the location determined by in incremented
-looping index) as the current 'block' and the new key data 'block'.
-The result of this is kept in 'md' and also xored into the 'state' at
-the same locations that were used as input into the hash function.  I
+The input is chopped up into units of 16 bytes (or less for
+the last block).  Each of these blocks is run through the hash
+function as follows:  The data passed to the hash function
+is the current 'md', the same number of bytes from the 'state'
+(the location determined by in incremented looping index) as
+the current 'block', the new key data 'block', and 'count'
+(which is incremented after each use).
+The result of this is kept in 'md' and also xored into the
+'state' at the same locations that were used as input into the
+hash function. I
 believe this system addresses points 1 (hash function; currently
 SHA-1), 3 (the 'state'), 4 (via the 'md'), 5 (by the use of a hash
 function and xor).