[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: c7b18dbc4 by Daniel Kristjansson (daniel-kristjansson)

[James Courtier-Dutton]

One way to get statistically pseudo random numbers is to get a random seed
for the IV and then just use AES in CBC mode, encryption all zeros should
give you a good pseudo random output. It is not a strong random number for
crypto purposes but fine for other uses.
 On Aug 23, 2011 10:21 PM, "Daniel Kristjansson" <danielk at cuymedia.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 23:07 +0200, Jonathan Martens wrote:
>> On 23-8-2011 22:57, Jonathan Martens wrote:
>> > I am afraid that this is the first in a line of things braking windows
>> > compilation as before I did a 'make distclean' I already observed this
>
> Sorry, I wrote this based on the Microsoft documentation, I didn't
> realize mingw doesn't support those the Microsoft stdlib.h. My
> googling on mingw and random doesn't seem to turn anything up.
> rand() isn't supposed to be used in multi-threaded programs. How
> badly it fails depends on a particular implementation, but I can't
> find any documentation the MINGW rand() implementation.
>
> If we need to, we can go back to the posix_rand_r() in my previous
> commit but it isn't exactly fast since it uses a mutex. Maybe some
> windows developer can speak up on how to get decent pseudo-random
> numbers in a thread-safe way using mingw?
>
> As for srandom() we can just put a stub in compat.h for that on
> windows, it just initializes the pseudo-random number generator.
>
> -- Daniel
>
>
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