Is there a thread-safe RNG in Bionic? For Linux, I know there is rand_r(), but this is unfortunately not a part of the NDK.
Is there a thread-safe RNG in Bionic? For Linux, I know there is rand_r()
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Is there a thread-safe RNG in Bionic? For Linux, I know there is rand_r(), but this is unfortunately not a part of the NDK.
You can simply read from
/dev/urandom/to get pseudo-random bytes. If you need this for cryptographic purposes, you may want to look into OpenSSL as well.