You don't need to call RAND_write_file. RAND_load_file("/dev/random",bytes )
will seed the PRNG with whatever is the value of "bytes" variable.
-Sandeep
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:59 AM, krishnamurthy santhanam <
krishnamurth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I need to seed PRNG of 128 bytes. in the below program is seeding 1024
> byte.
>
>
> is it possible seed 128 bytes of data using RAND_seed(). Any example should
> be helpful for me.
>
> #include<string.h>
>
> #include<openssl/rand.h>
>
> #include<openssl/bn.h>
>
>
>
>
> main()
>
> {
>
> /*int nb,l;
>
> l=RAND_load_file("/dev/random",bytes );
>
> printf("Seeded the PRNG with %d byte(s) of data from prngseed.dat.\n",l);
>
> RAND_write_file("prngseed.dat");
>
> nb=RAND_load_file("prngseed.dat", -1);
>
> printf("Seeded the PRNG with %d byte(s) of data from prngseed.dat.\n",nb);
>
> */
>
>
> }
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Krishnamurthy
>
