On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 07:59:34PM +0000, creslin@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > But in short answer yes, if you use the same seed the same answer > would be generated, assuming no further entropy is used later I.e > dependent on method employed to expand. Though then the 'randomness' > is in the seed not the output. Its this capability which allows simple > access control token devices to operate. > I'm not quite familiar with the number generators in the kernel. Right now I do this to get a random number betwen min and max: /* compute the random value within the given min and max wrt to step */ int tmp_bytes, range; range = max - min + 1; get_random_bytes(&tmp_bytes, sizeof(tmp_bytes)); if (0 > tmp_bytes) tmp_bytes = -tmp_bytes; new_random_param->curval = tmp_bytes % range + min; You mentioned the seed value. Is there a way to set a seed value before I invoke get_random_bytes? Could you direct me to a page / source file where I can get more information about it? Thanks for all responses so long! Andreas Leppert _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
