wnrndt(3)

wnrndt3

True random numbers

Usage

#include <wn/wnrndt.h>

int wn_true_random_int(void)

int wn_true_random_bit(void)

Overview

These routines generate true random numbers by XOR-ing together bits from /usr/spool/news. They are much slower than routines for pseudo-random numbers in wnrnd, and they fail when /usr/spool/news runs out of bits.

Releases

Unchanged in 5 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink).

  1. 2.1–4.0

Author

Will Naylor

From libwn-dev 6.0-17 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.