From 6d98399a271e8324bd2704b6bee8ae6fbe2bf6de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Nevins Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:08:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document Unix puttygen /dev/urandom default. This changed in 025599ec99 (before 0.71). --- doc/man-pg.but | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/man-pg.but b/doc/man-pg.but index fec3724a..7e244d15 100644 --- a/doc/man-pg.but +++ b/doc/man-pg.but @@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ on a temporary filesystem or else securely erased after use. \dt \cw{\-\-random\-device} \e{device} -\dd Specify device to read entropy from (default \c{/dev/random}). +\dd Specify device to read entropy from. By default, \c{puttygen} +uses \c{/dev/urandom}, falling back to \c{/dev/random} if it has to. In the second phase, \c{puttygen} optionally alters properties of the key it has loaded or generated. The options to control this are: