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sr #108940: [PATCH] reduce modulo bias if target platform supports arc4random_uniform()

Submitter:  Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden>
Submitted:  Tue 15 Dec 2015 07:01:38 PM UTC
   
 
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Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  None
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Tue 15 Dec 2015 07:01:38 PM UTC, original submission:  

ortp uses ortp_random % (1000). This introduces a modulo bias which makes it less random.

MAC OS X, iOS, Linux (with libbsd), FreeBSD and OpenBSD have an API known as arc4random_uniform() which solves the modulo bias problem.

Support that if available else fallback.





Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden>

 

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file #35754:  ortp.diff added by loganaden (3KiB - text/plain - use arc4random_uniform() if target platform supports it)

 

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