random-util: add random_u64_range() that acquires a random number from a certain range, unbiased

So far we have been quite sloppy with this and ignored modulus and range
bias. Let's do something about, and add the option to do better.
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Lennart Poettering
2021-02-14 15:42:12 +01:00
parent 26c59e4e95
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@@ -40,3 +40,5 @@ int rdrand(unsigned long *ret);
size_t random_pool_size(void);
int random_write_entropy(int fd, const void *seed, size_t size, bool credit);
int random_u64_range(uint64_t max);