site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AceCvvsCOb3WuO6yEduE0AAWy4i6sA== Thread-topic: Equivalent of get_random_bytes? User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.3.3.061214 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:

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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.

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