Re: [linux-minidisc] compiling libnetmd and netmdcli on windows

[Michael Karcher <Michael.Karcher@fu-berlin.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.09.2011, 09:06 +0200 schrieb Thomas Arp:
> In netmd.cli the random number is used for creating a nonce in this
> way:
> unsigned char hostnonce[8] = { 0 };
> unsigned char *buf;
> uint64_t rand;
> .
> .
> rand = (uint64_t)random();
> buf = hostnonce;
> netmd_copy_quadword_to_buffer(&buf, rand);
> .
> .
> 
> As far as i know random() and rand() are 32bit only.
> What about using "gcry_create_nonce(unsigned char *buffer, size_t length)" from libgcrypt instead?
> 
> unsigned char hostnonce[8] = { 0 };
> .
> .
> gcry_create_nonce(hostnonce, sizeof(hostnonce));

Yes, go that way. Sounds nice, and we already do depend on libgcrypt.

Regards,
   Michael Karcher