From c17e79a98202c27e20b799c49e911746fa8e8816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "R. Eric Wheeler" Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 16:49:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a13c962..9092f74 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ begin ``` - * On Linux systems TRandom reads from /dev/urandom. + * On Linux systems TRandom uses SYS_getrandom. * On Windows systems TRandom uses Windows built in [CryptGenRandom](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379942(v=vs.85).aspx "CryptGenRandom") function. * On BSD systems TRandom uses [arc4random_buf](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arc4random_buf&sektion=3 "arc4random_buf") this is the same on Mac systems, because Mac = FreeBSD). -TRandom will fall back on Free Pascal's [Random](http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/random.html "Random") function which uses the [Mersenne Twister](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister "Mersenne Twister") algorithm to get random bytes. +TRandom will fall back on reading from /dev/urandom, then /dev/random, and finally Free Pascal's [Random](http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/random.html "Random") function which uses the [Mersenne Twister](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister "Mersenne Twister") algorithm to get random bytes.