Hi Neil.

28-May-03 15:35:00, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts


 JB>> It may be better to do a #if using something from values.h but
 JB>> you may loose POSIX compatibility that way.

 NH> And speaking of POSIX compatibility, I see that there's a new
 NH> group in town:  OpenSSL.  It seems that there's a new library
 NH> containing functions dealing with the "random" topic.  I tried to
 NH> look into how one goes about using this library but was absolutely
 NH> unable.  Has anyone had any experience with OpenSSL in general or
 NH> with the OpenSSL random (or derivative) functions?

AIUI OpenSSL is for encrypted internet connections (sockets etc...)
that'd be what the random numbers were used for...

rand/srand is ANSI and POSIX compatible.
dunno if /dev/random is POSIX or not.

 -=> Bye <=-

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