Re: conversion of RAND_bytes to rand in fips apporved way

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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:20:57 +0000
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If RAND_MAX is a power of 2, then just ask RAND_bytes for the right number of bytes (four for 32768) and use bit-shifting to pack the value.

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