gnutls_handshake_set_random(3)

gnutls_handshake_set_random3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

int gnutls_handshake_set_random(gnutls_session_t session, const gnutls_datum_t * random);

Arguments

gnutls_session_t session

is a gnutls_session_t type.

const gnutls_datum_t * random

a random value of 32-bytes

Overview

This function will explicitly set the server or client hello random value in the subsequent TLS handshake. The random value should be a 32-byte value.

Note that this function should not normally be used as gnutls will select automatically a random value for the handshake.

This function should not be used when resuming a session.

Returns

GNUTLS_E_SUCCESS on success, or an error code.

Since 3.1.9

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13
  7. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.