On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:07:13AM -0800, Doug MacEachern wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Daniel Lopez wrote: > > > > > /dev/urandom is not available in all platforms > > right, which is why it is not portable to use directly.
I was not arguing, I was just reinstating your point :) On NT openssl uses data from the screen. I like the idea of using truerand.c or whatever the genrandom program bundled with openssl uses. > /dev/random is > also not available on all platforms, so apr uses whats available to > provide the same functionality for the given platform in > apr_generate_random_bytes(). >
