randstr.c

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/* randstr.c  --  Functions for getting random data
 *
 *  GPLv2 only - Copyright (C) 2009 - 2010
 *               David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net>
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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 *  as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
 *  of the License.
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 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <openssl/rand.h>

#include <eurephia_nullsafe.h>
#include <eurephia_context.h>
#include <eurephia_log.h>

static int rand_init = 0;

int eurephia_randstring(eurephiaCTX *ctx, void *rndstr, size_t len) {
        int attempts = 0;
        do {
                if( !rand_init ) {
                        if( !RAND_load_file("/dev/urandom", 64) ) {
                                eurephia_log(ctx, LOG_FATAL, 0, "Could not load random data from /dev/urandom");
                                return 0;
                        }
                        rand_init = 1;
                }

                if( RAND_pseudo_bytes((unsigned char *) rndstr, len) ) {
                        return 1;
                }
                sleep(1);
                rand_init = 0;
        } while( attempts++ < 11 );
        eurephia_log(ctx, LOG_FATAL, 0, "RAND_pseudo_bytes() could not generate enough random data");
        return 0;
}