1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 #include "base/rand_util.h"
9 // #define needed to link in RtlGenRandom(), a.k.a. SystemFunction036. See the
10 // "Community Additions" comment on MSDN here:
11 // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387694.aspx
12 #define SystemFunction036 NTAPI SystemFunction036
14 #undef SystemFunction036
19 #include "base/logging.h"
23 // NOTE: This function must be cryptographically secure. http://crbug.com/140076
26 RandBytes(&number
, sizeof(number
));
30 void RandBytes(void* output
, size_t output_length
) {
31 char* output_ptr
= static_cast<char*>(output
);
32 while (output_length
> 0) {
33 const ULONG output_bytes_this_pass
= static_cast<ULONG
>(std::min(
34 output_length
, static_cast<size_t>(std::numeric_limits
<ULONG
>::max())));
36 RtlGenRandom(output_ptr
, output_bytes_this_pass
) != FALSE
;
38 output_length
-= output_bytes_this_pass
;
39 output_ptr
+= output_bytes_this_pass
;