int randombytes()

in src/random/random.c [28:61]

• 29 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

int randombytes(unsigned char* random_array, unsigned long long nbytes)
{ // Generation of "nbytes" of random values
    
#if defined(__WINDOWS__)   
    if (!BCRYPT_SUCCESS(BCryptGenRandom(NULL, random_array, (unsigned long)nbytes, BCRYPT_USE_SYSTEM_PREFERRED_RNG))) {
        return failed;
    }

#elif defined(__NIX__)
    int r, n = (int)nbytes, count = 0;
    
    if (lock == -1) {
        do {
            lock = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
            if (lock == -1) {
                delay(0xFFFFF);
            }
        } while (lock == -1);
    }

    while (n > 0) {
        do {
            r = read(lock, random_array+count, n);
            if (r == -1) {
                delay(0xFFFF);
            }
        } while (r == -1);
        count += r;
        n -= r;
    }
#endif

    return passed;
}