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How to access Random Number Generator in windows ????

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  1 year ago

  by qwijibow

  Chris Stones

  England Nottingham, United Kingdom

  Joined 8 years ago

  Hey guys, In trying to port some code win32, but having some serious trouble.

  the AMD Geode-LX processor has a hardware Random number generator, i need to be able to read from it in windows.

  I have been looking all over MSDN for hours, aswell as googling , but i have found nothing.

  the rand() function is only software low quality pseudo random, even when hardware support is installed. 

   The Code in linux is as follows....

  FILE* rng;

  BOOL hw_rng_init(void)

  {

       return (rng = fopen("/dev/hwrandom"))?TRUE:FALSE;
  

  }
   

  char hw_rng_get8()

  {

       char number;

       fread(&number,1,1, rng)
   

      return number;
   

  } 

   

  short hw_rng_get16()

  {

       short number;

       fread(&number,1,2, rng)
   

      return number;
  

  }
  

   

  int hw_rng_get32()

  {

       int number;

       fread(&number,1,4, rng)
   

      return number;
  

  }

   

   

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