[erlang-questions] binary to bigint?

[Jakob Cederlund]

To make an erlang integer from crypto:rand_bytes:
 
big_random_int(Bytes) ->
    B = crypto:rand_bytes(Bytes),
    crypto:erlint(<<Bytes:32/unsigned-big-integer, B/binary>>).

I'd rather use rand_uniform/2, though.
/Jakob


Jakob Cederlund wrote:
> In crypto you also have rand_uniform/2 which accepts large integers, and 
> mpint/1 that converts from binary form.
>
> /Jakob
>
> Jim McCoy wrote:
>   
>> After bouncing through the various bits of doc related to io_lib I
>> can't quite seem to put together a quick function that will convert an
>> arbitrary binary to a big int (e.g. I want the integer for
>> crypto:rand_bytes(40)...)
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
>> jim
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