[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4227] openssl rand 10000000000 does not produce 10000000000 random bytes

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Tue Jan 12 17:05:56 UTC 2016


> May I suggest the bug also becomes a wish for support for > 2GB numbers,
> as that is what the user originally wanted?

Unlikely to happen in 1.1 because of portability issues.
Call it multiple times or, better, write a small program to generate a PRNG stream. 


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