[Mentalunix-developers] Re: dev stuff + random number gen in C

[CoolProgrammer <coo...@ya...>]

Actually, I believe there's a better way (under Linux):

#include <stdio.h>void main() {     FILE *random;     int i;     random = fopen("/dev/random", "rb");     if(!random)         return;     fread(&i, sizeof(int), 1, random);     printf("%d", i);     fclose(random);     return;}

This assumes that the /dev/random device is enabled, but, since the kernel obtains this data from the environment, it is truly random. These numbers are better for encryption--rand() is not so good for that.
~CoolProgrammer



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