curl/lib/rand.h
Harry Sintonen 3aa3cc9b05
misc: better random strings
Generate alphanumerical random strings.

Prior this change curl used to create random hex strings. This was
mostly okay, but having alphanumerical random strings is better: The
strings have more entropy in the same space.

The MIME multipart boundary used to be mere 64-bits of randomness due
to being 16 hex chars. With these changes the boundary is 22
alphanumerical chars, or little over 130 bits of randomness.

Closes #11838
2023-09-16 11:37:57 +02:00

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#ifndef HEADER_CURL_RAND_H
#define HEADER_CURL_RAND_H
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CURLcode Curl_rand(struct Curl_easy *data, unsigned char *rnd, size_t num);
/*
* Curl_rand_hex() fills the 'rnd' buffer with a given 'num' size with random
* hexadecimal digits PLUS a null-terminating byte. It must be an odd number
* size.
*/
CURLcode Curl_rand_hex(struct Curl_easy *data, unsigned char *rnd,
size_t num);
/*
* Curl_rand_alnum() fills the 'rnd' buffer with a given 'num' size with random
* alphanumerical chars PLUS a null-terminating byte.
*/
CURLcode Curl_rand_alnum(struct Curl_easy *data, unsigned char *rnd,
size_t num);
#ifdef WIN32
/* Random generator shared between the Schannel vtls and Curl_rand*()
functions */
CURLcode Curl_win32_random(unsigned char *entropy, size_t length);
#endif
#endif /* HEADER_CURL_RAND_H */