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iTechSharp/srcbc/crypto/prng/ThreadedSeedGenerator.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Threading;
+
+namespace Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto.Prng
+{
+	/**
+	 * A thread based seed generator - one source of randomness.
+	 * <p>
+	 * Based on an idea from Marcus Lippert.
+	 * </p>
+	 */
+	public class ThreadedSeedGenerator
+	{
+		private class SeedGenerator
+		{
+#if NETCF_1_0
+			// No volatile keyword, but all fields implicitly volatile anyway
+			private int		counter = 0;
+			private bool	stop = false;
+#else
+			private volatile int	counter = 0;
+			private volatile bool	stop = false;
+#endif
+
+			private void Run(object ignored)
+			{
+				while (!this.stop)
+				{
+					this.counter++;
+				}
+			}
+
+			public byte[] GenerateSeed(
+				int		numBytes,
+				bool	fast)
+			{
+				this.counter = 0;
+				this.stop = false;
+
+				byte[] result = new byte[numBytes];
+				int last = 0;
+				int end = fast ? numBytes : numBytes * 8;
+
+				ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(Run));
+
+				for (int i = 0; i < end; i++)
+				{
+					while (this.counter == last)
+					{
+						try
+						{
+							Thread.Sleep(1);
+						}
+						catch (Exception)
+						{
+							// ignore
+						}
+					}
+
+					last = this.counter;
+
+					if (fast)
+					{
+						result[i] = (byte) last;
+					}
+					else
+					{
+						int bytepos = i / 8;
+						result[bytepos] = (byte) ((result[bytepos] << 1) | (last & 1));
+					}
+				}
+
+				this.stop = true;
+
+				return result;
+			}
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Generate seed bytes. Set fast to false for best quality.
+		 * <p>
+		 * If fast is set to true, the code should be round about 8 times faster when
+		 * generating a long sequence of random bytes. 20 bytes of random values using
+		 * the fast mode take less than half a second on a Nokia e70. If fast is set to false,
+		 * it takes round about 2500 ms.
+		 * </p>
+		 * @param numBytes the number of bytes to generate
+		 * @param fast true if fast mode should be used
+		 */
+		public byte[] GenerateSeed(
+			int		numBytes,
+			bool	fast)
+		{
+			return new SeedGenerator().GenerateSeed(numBytes, fast);
+		}
+	}
+}