/* This file is part of GNUnet. (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Christian Grothoff (and other contributing authors) GNUnet is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNUnet is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNUnet; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /** * @file util/crypto_random.c * @brief functions to gather random numbers * @author Christian Grothoff */ #include "platform.h" #include "gnunet_common.h" #include "gnunet_crypto_lib.h" #include /** * Produce a random value. * * @param mode desired quality of the random number * @param i the upper limit (exclusive) for the random number * @return a random value in the interval [0,i[. */ uint32_t GNUNET_CRYPTO_random_u32 (enum GNUNET_CRYPTO_Quality mode, uint32_t i) { #ifdef gcry_fast_random_poll static unsigned int invokeCount; #endif uint32_t ret; GNUNET_assert (i > 0); if (mode == GNUNET_CRYPTO_QUALITY_STRONG) { /* see http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2004-May/000613.html */ #ifdef gcry_fast_random_poll if ((invokeCount++ % 256) == 0) gcry_fast_random_poll (); #endif gcry_randomize ((unsigned char *) &ret, sizeof (uint32_t), GCRY_STRONG_RANDOM); return ret % i; } else { ret = i * ((double) RANDOM () / RAND_MAX); if (ret >= i) ret = i - 1; return ret; } } /** * Get an array with a random permutation of the * numbers 0...n-1. * @param mode GNUNET_RANDOM_QUALITY_STRONG if the strong (but expensive) * PRNG should be used, GNUNET_RANDOM_QUALITY_WEAK otherwise * @param n the size of the array * @return the permutation array (allocated from heap) */ unsigned int * GNUNET_CRYPTO_random_permute (enum GNUNET_CRYPTO_Quality mode, unsigned int n) { unsigned int *ret; unsigned int i; unsigned int tmp; uint32_t x; GNUNET_assert (n > 0); ret = GNUNET_malloc (n * sizeof (unsigned int)); for (i = 0; i < n; i++) ret[i] = i; for (i = 0; i < n; i++) { x = GNUNET_CRYPTO_random_u32 (mode, n); tmp = ret[x]; ret[x] = ret[i]; ret[i] = tmp; } return ret; } /** * Random on unsigned 64-bit values. * * * @param mode desired quality of the random number * @param max value returned will be in range [0,max) (exclusive) * @return random 64-bit number */ uint64_t GNUNET_CRYPTO_random_u64 (enum GNUNET_CRYPTO_Quality mode, uint64_t max) { uint64_t ret; GNUNET_assert (max > 0); if (mode == GNUNET_CRYPTO_QUALITY_STRONG) { gcry_randomize ((unsigned char *) &ret, sizeof (uint64_t), GCRY_STRONG_RANDOM); return ret % max; } else { ret = max * ((double) RANDOM () / RAND_MAX); if (ret >= max) ret = max - 1; return ret; } } /** * This function should only be called in testcases * where strong entropy gathering is not desired * (for example, for hostkey generation). */ void GNUNET_CRYPTO_random_disable_entropy_gathering () { gcry_control (GCRYCTL_ENABLE_QUICK_RANDOM, 0); } /** * Initializer */ void __attribute__ ((constructor)) GNUNET_util_random_init () { SRANDOM (time (NULL)); } /* end of crypto_random.c */