There a two problems. 1. It is inconvenient to find a URL in a man page which requires online access! 2. man 4 random claims that: The other variables are explained in the paper describing the Yarrow algorithm at http://www.counterpane.com/yarrow.html. These variables are all limited in terms of the values they may contain: kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval [4..64] kern.random.yarrow.bins [2..16] kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh [64..256] kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh [64..256] kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh [1..5] Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables. Fix: Add a useful explanation! How-To-Repeat: man 4 random
State Changed From-To: open->closed The URL is required to understand the Yarrow protocol, we cannot remove that eventhough it requires internet access for this. Closing the PR. Facilitated by: Snow B.V.
Hi, > Synopsis: man 4 random has a URL as reference > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: remko > State-Changed-When: Fri Oct 13 14:16:30 UTC 2006 > State-Changed-Why: > The URL is required to understand the Yarrow protocol, we cannot remove > that eventhough it requires internet access for this. Closing the PR. > Facilitated by: Snow B.V. > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101564 Did you read the last sentence in my PR? >> Scheiers paper explains the algoritm but does not consider the meaning to the variables. This is still true! Dr. Markus Waldeck