Re: Instantiating my own random number generator

[Paulo Marques]

Roberto Jung Drebes wrote:
> Hi there,

Hi,

> I have a kernel module which asks for random numbers using  
> get_random_bytes().
>
> Is there a way I can set this number generator my own seed value, so  
> that I can replay experiments I perform with my module? If I set a  seed 
> for the whole system, it would affect other kernel tasks  obtaining 
> random numbers through get_random_bytes(), so I guess that  is not a 
> good solution.

Why don't you implement a simple PRNG in your own module that you can 
control yourself for your experiments, and then replace it later with 
get_random_bytes()?

There are a number of PRNG's that are simple to implement and good 
enough for most problems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudorandom_number_generators

I hope this helps,

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