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getRandom

Section: (T)TCB (1)
Updated: 13 November 2002
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NAME

getRandom - Requests a trusted random number from the TTCB

 

SYNOPSIS

#include "tcb/ttcb.h"

void getRandom(descriptor_t *descriptor, rand_out_t *out);

 

DESCRIPTION

The trusted random number generation service gives trustworthy uniformly distributed random numbers. Currently the numbers are generated by the Linux random number generator. A single number is returned in out.

 

SEE ALSO

getLocalPublicKey (1), openTCBconnection (1), closeTCBConnection (1), getRandom (1), getTCBTimetsamp (1).


 

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