Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:54:09 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: using /dev/random Message-ID: <18648.30321.369520.631459@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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What is the canonical way to get data from /dev/random?
Specifically: having opened the file, how do I read the stream?
I'm currently using
union {
float f;
char c[4];
} foo;
foo.f = 0.0;
fscanf(rand_fp,"%4c",foo.c);
which doesn't seem to produce anywhere near "random bytes" as
promised by the man page.
Robert Huff
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