On Thu, Mar 02, 2000, Pascal Junod wrote:
> #define ENTROPY_NEEDED 16 /* require 128 bits = 16 bytes of randomness
> */
>
> [...]
>
> Is it a bad idea to define this constant in rand.h instead of md_rand.c
> ?
The information hiding principle suggests that it is indeed a bad idea.
If there was a real benefit to it, one might change the RAND_status()
function to return a numeric value, but I don't see that.
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