topic Re: Again, random number generator in Operating System - HP-UX

Again, random number generator

Yewen Tang — Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:23:56 GMT

What I realy want is to install two perl modules for SSL communication. The attachment is i posted on other mailing lists.

Thanks

Re: Again, random number generator

Chris Moore — Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:24:49 GMT

It looks like SSLeay is using /dev/random to seed a random number
generator. Are you sure you need it? Have you tried just not
defining DEVRANDOM in the e_os.h?
If you really need the random number generator seeded than you
can modify crypto/rand/md5_rand.c to use something else as
a seed - maybe a call to time().

Re: Again, random number generator

Andreas Voss — Tue, 25 Jul 2000 09:01:32 GMT

Hi,

here a simple C program for creating random numbers:
#include

main()
{
srandom(time(NULL));
printf("%ld\n",random());
exit(0);
}

Put the source ie. into /etc/random.c
Then compile:
cc /etc/random.c -o /etc/random

Hope this helps

Andrew