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authorDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-06-04 09:58:23 +0200
committerDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-06-04 09:59:09 +0200
commit0f1f8ccf43e1296725cfbef482d19c90b15af98c (patch)
treeabf85cfed8766641119736cceca61f0f8cd7d1fc /rnd.c
parent9a1b2fbdc9f319aaf57a79f8e6ce7d5e6a3ecaa6 (diff)
rnd: break out prng from xutils
We only need it in curvetun, this makes it easier to maintain. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "rnd.h"
+
+static int fd_rnd = -1;
+
+static void randombytes(unsigned char *x, unsigned long long xlen)
+{
+ int ret;
+
+ if (fd_rnd == -1) {
+ for (;;) {
+ fd_rnd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd_rnd != -1)
+ break;
+ sleep(1);
+ }
+ }
+
+ while (xlen > 0) {
+ if (xlen < 1048576)
+ ret = xlen;
+ else
+ ret = 1048576;
+
+ ret = read(fd_rnd, x, ret);
+ if (ret < 1) {
+ sleep(1);
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ x += ret;
+ xlen -= ret;
+ }
+}
+
+/* Note: it's not really secure, but the name only suggests it's better to use
+ * than rand(3) when transferring bytes over the network in non-security
+ * critical structure members. secrand() is only used to fill up salts actually.
+ */
+int secrand(void)
+{
+ int ret;
+ randombytes((void *) &ret, sizeof(ret));
+ return ret;
+}