/* magic.c - PPP Magic Number routines. * * Copyright (C) 1989 Carnegie Mellon University. * * This program 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 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program 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 this program - see the file COPYING. * * See `CHANGES' file for revision history. */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "magic.h" static int magic_initialised = 0; /* * magic_init - Initialize the magic number generator. * * Attempts to compute a random number seed which will not repeat. */ void magic_init() { struct stat statbuf; long seed = 0; struct timeval t; if (magic_initialised) return; // try to initialise seed from urandom if (!lstat("/dev/urandom", &statbuf) && S_ISCHR(statbuf.st_mode)) { int rfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY); if(rfd >= 0) { int nb_read = read(rfd, &seed, sizeof(seed)); close(rfd); } } // fallback gettimeofday(&t, NULL); seed ^= gethostid() ^ t.tv_sec ^ t.tv_usec ^ getpid(); // finally seed the PRNG srandom(seed); magic_initialised = 1; } /* * magic - Returns the next magic number. */ u_int32_t magic() { if(!magic_initialised) magic_init(); return (u_int32_t)random(); }