site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Thanks, no, read_random() is what I was looking for Alex Am 19.04.2007 um 22:11 schrieb Paul Nelson: 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 msmith@freebsd.org 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. This email sent to nelson@thursby.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... = Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/nelson% 40thursby.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/newsletters% 40vonbelow.com This email sent to newsletters@vonbelow.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com