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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/securerandom.rb | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Sep 20 23:37:40 2013 Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> + + * lib/securerandom.rb: [DOC] SecureRandom.hex length argument + [Fixes GH-394] Patch by @avdi https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/394 + Fri Sep 20 23:34:48 2013 Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> * benchmark/bm_app_answer.rb: removed duplicate code [Fixes GH-393] diff --git a/lib/securerandom.rb b/lib/securerandom.rb index b1603b4ca9..f12bc00114 100644 --- a/lib/securerandom.rb +++ b/lib/securerandom.rb @@ -116,10 +116,10 @@ module SecureRandom raise NotImplementedError, "No random device" end - # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hex string. + # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hexadecimal string. # - # The argument _n_ specifies the length of the random length. - # The length of the result string is twice of _n_. + # The argument _n_ specifies the length, in bytes, of the random number to be generated. + # The length of the resulting hexadecimal string is twice _n_. # # If _n_ is not specified, 16 is assumed. # It may be larger in future. |