/** Generate n bytes of secure pseudorandom data, and store them in buf.
*
- * By default, Libevent uses an ARC4-based random number generator, seeded
- * using the platform's entropy source (/dev/urandom on Unix-like systems;
- * CryptGenRandom on Windows).
+ * Current versions of Libevent use an ARC4-based random number generator,
+ * seeded using the platform's entropy source (/dev/urandom on Unix-like
+ * systems; CryptGenRandom on Windows). This is not actually as secure as it
+ * should be: ARC4 is a pretty lousy cipher, and the current implementation
+ * provides only rudimentary prediction- and backtracking-resistance. Don't
+ * use this for serious cryptographic applications.
*/
void evutil_secure_rng_get_bytes(void *buf, size_t n);