/* 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 rfd = -1; /* fd for /dev/urandom */ static int magic_inited = 0; /* * magic_init - Initialize the magic number generator. * * Attempts to compute a random number seed which will not repeat. * The current method uses the current hostid, current process ID * and current time, currently. */ void magic_init() { struct stat statbuf; long seed; struct timeval t; if (magic_inited) return; magic_inited = 1; /* try using /dev/urandom also check that it's a character device If it doesn't exist, fallback to other method */ if (!lstat("/dev/urandom", &statbuf) && S_ISCHR(statbuf.st_mode)) { rfd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY); if (rfd >= 0) return; } gettimeofday(&t, NULL); seed = gethostid() ^ t.tv_sec ^ t.tv_usec ^ getpid(); srandom(seed); } /* * magic - Returns the next magic number. */ u_int32_t magic() { magic_init(); if(rfd > -1) { u_int32_t ret; if (read(rfd, &ret, sizeof(ret)) < sizeof(ret)) { /* on read() error fallback to other method */ return (u_int32_t)random(); } return ret; } return (u_int32_t)random(); }