A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom

Last week, I wrote two articles pointing out issues with unofficial porting efforts of LibreSSL . In these articles, I highlighted some is...

Designing C++ functions to write/save to any storage mechanism

Problem A common issue when dealing with a custom object or any kind of data is to create some sort of save functionality with it, perhaps w...

Reading in an entire file at once in C++, part 2

Last week I discussed 6 different methods on how to quickly get an entire file into a C++ string . The conclusion was that the straight forw...

How to read in a file in C++

So here's a simple question, what is the correct way to read in a file completely in C++? Various people have various solutions, those w...