On 2014/03/31 20:58, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > security/samhain has been broken since the removal of sum(1). > > The problem is the c_random.sh script, which returns a 16-bit random > number in decimal. Unless I'm missing something obvious, this is > surprisingly difficult to do in a semi-portable fashion at the shell > level. > > I've settled on > printf %d `openssl rand -hex 2` > > The other part is just re-indentation. > > OK? Better ideas?
I wondered about just doing $((RANDOM+RANDOM)) but don't know the pros and cons of that approach - it's not exactly arc4random_uniform..
