Re: Equivalent of get_random_bytes?
Re: Equivalent of get_random_bytes?
- Subject: Re: Equivalent of get_random_bytes?
- From: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:11:57 -0500
- Thread-topic: Equivalent of get_random_bytes?
I think this is what the poster had in mind:
openssl rand -out foo.dat 1024
makes a file containing 1024 bytes
You can also base64 it:
openssl rand -base64 1024 | wc
Also, see 'man rand'
Paul Nelson
Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
on 4/19/07 2:45 PM, Michael Smith at email@hidden wrote:
>
>> is there an equivalent for Linux' get_random_bytes (1) other than
>> reading /dev/random on darwin?
>
> If you are inside the kernel, the BSD symbolset exports read_random()
> in <sys/random.h>.
>
> In userspace, just read from /dev/random.
>
> = Mike
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