From: Bodo Möller Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 20:18:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: change comments X-Git-Tag: OpenSSL_0_9_5beta1~227 X-Git-Url: https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2c8aeddc5d3589bc8ab25fc85e050f2954b0f55d change comments --- diff --git a/crypto/rand/md_rand.c b/crypto/rand/md_rand.c index 18b8e8d922..d6f47b6e9d 100644 --- a/crypto/rand/md_rand.c +++ b/crypto/rand/md_rand.c @@ -322,19 +322,20 @@ static int ssleay_rand_bytes(unsigned char *buf, int num) #endif /* - * (Based on doc/ssleay.txt, section rand.doc:) + * (Based on the rand(3) manpage:) * - * For each group of 8 bytes (or less), we do the following, + * For each group of 8 bytes (or less), we do the following: * - * Input into MD5, the top 8 bytes from 'md', the byte that are - * to be overwritten by the random bytes and bytes from the + * Input into the hash function the top 8 bytes from 'md', the bytes + * that are to be overwritten by the random bytes, and bytes from the * 'state' (incrementing looping index). From this digest output * (which is kept in 'md'), the top (upto) 8 bytes are * returned to the caller and the bottom (upto) 8 bytes are xored * into the 'state'. * Finally, after we have finished 'num' random bytes for the - * caller, 'count' (which is incremented) and the local and globl 'md' - * are fed into MD5 and the results are kept in the global 'md'. + * caller, 'count' (which is incremented) and the local and global 'md' + * are fed into the hash function and the results are kept in the + * global 'md'. */ CRYPTO_w_lock(CRYPTO_LOCK_RAND);