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Change arc4random_uniform() to calculate ``2**32 % upper_bound'' as

``-upper_bound % upper_bound''.  Simplifies the code and makes it the
same on both ILP32 and LP64 architectures, and also slightly faster on
LP64 architectures by using a 32-bit remainder instead of a 64-bit
remainder.
Pointed out by Jorden Verwer on tech@
ok deraadt; no objections from djm or otto
OPENBSD_5_2
matthew 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 12 deletions
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      src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.c

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- 12
src/lib/libc/crypt/arc4random.c View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* $OpenBSD: arc4random.c,v 1.22 2010/12/22 08:23:42 otto Exp $ */
/* $OpenBSD: arc4random.c,v 1.23 2012/06/24 18:25:12 matthew Exp $ */
/*
* Copyright (c) 1996, David Mazieres <dm@uun.org>
@ -214,17 +214,8 @@ arc4random_uniform(u_int32_t upper_bound)
if (upper_bound < 2)
return 0;
#if (ULONG_MAX > 0xffffffffUL)
min = 0x100000000UL % upper_bound;
#else
/* Calculate (2**32 % upper_bound) avoiding 64-bit math */
if (upper_bound > 0x80000000)
min = 1 + ~upper_bound; /* 2**32 - upper_bound */
else {
/* (2**32 - (x * 2)) % x == 2**32 % x when x <= 2**31 */
min = ((0xffffffff - (upper_bound * 2)) + 1) % upper_bound;
}
#endif
/* 2**32 % x == (2**32 - x) % x */
min = -upper_bound % upper_bound;
/*
* This could theoretically loop forever but each retry has


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