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authorJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2008-06-10 05:09:49 +0200
committerJelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>2008-06-10 05:09:49 +0200
commit7f49a8642e162611cf20ab95955098597d1f4472 (patch)
tree7ea13b3fa46c65a8c35221f61719a44f966b2137 /unix.c
parent55eda086dc21a5ed7f4e13a3b129b817d151df86 (diff)
Move random_bytes() back to lib/
Diffstat (limited to 'unix.c')
-rw-r--r--unix.c65
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 65 deletions
diff --git a/unix.c b/unix.c
index f90f03b9..0566fa56 100644
--- a/unix.c
+++ b/unix.c
@@ -225,69 +225,4 @@ double gettime()
return( (double) time->tv_sec + (double) time->tv_usec / 1000000 );
}
-/* A pretty reliable random number generator. Tries to use the /dev/random
- devices first, and falls back to the random number generator from libc
- when it fails. Opens randomizer devices with O_NONBLOCK to make sure a
- lack of entropy won't halt BitlBee. */
-void random_bytes( unsigned char *buf, int count )
-{
- static int use_dev = -1;
-
- /* Actually this probing code isn't really necessary, is it? */
- if( use_dev == -1 )
- {
- if( access( "/dev/random", R_OK ) == 0 || access( "/dev/urandom", R_OK ) == 0 )
- use_dev = 1;
- else
- {
- use_dev = 0;
- srand( ( getpid() << 16 ) ^ time( NULL ) );
- }
- }
-
- if( use_dev )
- {
- int fd;
-
- /* At least on Linux, /dev/random can block if there's not
- enough entropy. We really don't want that, so if it can't
- give anything, use /dev/urandom instead. */
- if( ( fd = open( "/dev/random", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK ) ) >= 0 )
- if( read( fd, buf, count ) == count )
- {
- close( fd );
- return;
- }
- close( fd );
-
- /* urandom isn't supposed to block at all, but just to be
- sure. If it blocks, we'll disable use_dev and use the libc
- randomizer instead. */
- if( ( fd = open( "/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK ) ) >= 0 )
- if( read( fd, buf, count ) == count )
- {
- close( fd );
- return;
- }
- close( fd );
-
- /* If /dev/random blocks once, we'll still try to use it
- again next time. If /dev/urandom also fails for some
- reason, stick with libc during this session. */
-
- use_dev = 0;
- srand( ( getpid() << 16 ) ^ time( NULL ) );
- }
-
- if( !use_dev )
- {
- int i;
-
- /* Possibly the LSB of rand() isn't very random on some
- platforms. Seems okay on at least Linux and OSX though. */
- for( i = 0; i < count; i ++ )
- buf[i] = rand() & 0xff;
- }
-}
-