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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2004-08-29 15:46:35 (GMT)
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2004-08-29 15:46:35 (GMT)
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Patch #934711: Expose platform-specific entropy.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
-rw-r--r--Modules/posixmodule.c73
1 files changed, 72 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 474e00e..21cab81 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ extern int lstat(const char *, struct stat *);
#include <io.h>
#include <process.h>
#include "osdefs.h"
-#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
+#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400 /* Needed for CryptoAPI on some systems */
#include <windows.h>
#include <shellapi.h> /* for ShellExecute() */
#define popen _popen
@@ -7221,6 +7221,74 @@ posix_getloadavg(PyObject *self, PyObject *noargs)
}
#endif
+#ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+
+PyDoc_STRVAR(win32_urandom__doc__,
+"urandom(n) -> str\n\n\
+Return a string of n random bytes suitable for cryptographic use.");
+
+typedef BOOL (WINAPI *CRYPTACQUIRECONTEXTA)(HCRYPTPROV *phProv,\
+ LPCSTR pszContainer, LPCSTR pszProvider, DWORD dwProvType,\
+ DWORD dwFlags );
+typedef BOOL (WINAPI *CRYPTGENRANDOM)(HCRYPTPROV hProv, DWORD dwLen,\
+ BYTE *pbBuffer );
+
+static CRYPTGENRANDOM pCryptGenRandom = NULL;
+static HCRYPTPROV hCryptProv = 0;
+
+static PyObject* win32_urandom(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+ int howMany = 0;
+ unsigned char* bytes = NULL;
+ PyObject* returnVal = NULL;
+
+ /* Read arguments */
+ if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "i", &howMany))
+ return(NULL);
+
+ if (hCryptProv == 0) {
+ HINSTANCE hAdvAPI32 = NULL;
+ CRYPTACQUIRECONTEXTA pCryptAcquireContext = NULL;
+
+ /* Obtain handle to the DLL containing CryptoAPI
+ This should not fail */
+ if( (hAdvAPI32 = GetModuleHandle("advapi32.dll")) == NULL)
+ return win32_error("GetModuleHandle", NULL);
+
+ /* Obtain pointers to the CryptoAPI functions
+ This will fail on some early versions of Win95 */
+ pCryptAcquireContext=(CRYPTACQUIRECONTEXTA)GetProcAddress(hAdvAPI32,\
+ "CryptAcquireContextA");
+ pCryptGenRandom=(CRYPTGENRANDOM)GetProcAddress(hAdvAPI32,\
+ "CryptGenRandom");
+
+ if (pCryptAcquireContext == NULL || pCryptGenRandom == NULL)
+ return PyErr_Format(PyExc_NotImplementedError,\
+ "CryptGenRandom not found");
+
+ /* Acquire context */
+ if(!pCryptAcquireContext(&hCryptProv, NULL, NULL, PROV_RSA_FULL,
+ CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT))
+ return win32_error("CryptAcquireContext", NULL);
+ }
+
+ /* Allocate bytes */
+ if ((bytes = (unsigned char*)PyMem_Malloc(howMany)) == NULL)
+ return PyErr_NoMemory();
+
+ /* Get random data */
+ if (!pCryptGenRandom(hCryptProv, howMany, bytes)) {
+ PyMem_Free(bytes);
+ return win32_error("CryptGenRandom", NULL);
+ }
+
+ /* Build return value */
+ returnVal = PyString_FromStringAndSize(bytes, howMany);
+ PyMem_Free(bytes);
+
+ return returnVal;
+}
+#endif
static PyMethodDef posix_methods[] = {
{"access", posix_access, METH_VARARGS, posix_access__doc__},
@@ -7506,6 +7574,9 @@ static PyMethodDef posix_methods[] = {
#ifdef HAVE_GETLOADAVG
{"getloadavg", posix_getloadavg, METH_NOARGS, posix_getloadavg__doc__},
#endif
+ #ifdef MS_WINDOWS
+ {"urandom", win32_urandom, METH_VARARGS, win32_urandom__doc__},
+ #endif
{NULL, NULL} /* Sentinel */
};