RandomPool Class Reference

#include <randpool.h>

Inheritance diagram for RandomPool:

RandomNumberGenerator NotCopyable Algorithm Clonable AutoSeededRandomPool List of all members.

Detailed Description

Randomness Pool.

This class can be used to generate cryptographic quality pseudorandom bytes after seeding the pool with IncorporateEntropy()

Definition at line 12 of file randpool.h.

Public Member Functions

 RandomPool ()
bool CanIncorporateEntropy () const
 returns true if IncorporateEntropy is implemented
void IncorporateEntropy (const byte *input, size_t length)
 update RNG state with additional unpredictable values
void GenerateIntoBufferedTransformation (BufferedTransformation &target, const std::string &channel, lword size)
 generate random bytes as input to a BufferedTransformation
void Put (const byte *input, size_t length)
virtual byte GenerateByte ()
 generate new random byte and return it
virtual unsigned int GenerateBit ()
 generate new random bit and return it
virtual word32 GenerateWord32 (word32 a=0, word32 b=0xffffffffL)
 generate a random 32 bit word in the range min to max, inclusive
virtual void GenerateBlock (byte *output, size_t size)
 generate random array of bytes
virtual void DiscardBytes (size_t n)
 generate and discard n bytes
template<class IT>
void Shuffle (IT begin, IT end)
 randomly shuffle the specified array, resulting permutation is uniformly distributed
virtual std::string AlgorithmName () const
 returns name of this algorithm, not universally implemented yet
virtual ClonableClone () const
 this is not implemented by most classes yet


Member Function Documentation

unsigned int RandomNumberGenerator::GenerateBit (  )  [virtual, inherited]

generate new random bit and return it

Default implementation is to call GenerateByte() and return its lowest bit.

Reimplemented in PublicBlumBlumShub.

Definition at line 129 of file cryptlib.cpp.

References RandomNumberGenerator::GenerateByte().

Referenced by XTR_FindPrimesAndGenerator().


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