+#include "crypt.h"
+#include "fd.h"
+/**
+ * Fill a buffer with random content.
+ *
+ * \param buf The buffer to fill.
+ * \param num The size of \a buf in bytes.
+ *
+ * This function puts \a num cryptographically strong pseudo-random bytes into
+ * buf. If libssl can not guarantee an unpredictable byte sequence (for example
+ * because the PRNG has not been seeded with enough randomness) the function
+ * logs an error message and calls exit().
+ */
+void get_random_bytes_or_die(unsigned char *buf, int num)
+{
+ unsigned long err;
+
+ /* RAND_bytes() returns 1 on success, 0 otherwise. */
+ if (RAND_bytes(buf, num) == 1)
+ return;
+ err = ERR_get_error();
+ PARA_EMERG_LOG("%s\n", ERR_reason_error_string(err));
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Seed pseudo random number generators.
+ *
+ * This function reads 64 bytes from /dev/urandom and adds them to the SSL
+ * PRNG. It also seeds the PRNG used by random() with a random seed obtained
+ * from SSL. If /dev/random could not be read, an error message is logged and
+ * the function calls exit().
+ *
+ * \sa RAND_load_file(3), \ref get_random_bytes_or_die(), srandom(3),
+ * random(3), \ref para_random().
+ */
+void init_random_seed_or_die(void)
+{
+ int seed, ret = RAND_load_file("/dev/urandom", 64);