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osrandom

An interface to the OS' secure random number generator

by Keziah Biermann

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Sep 8, 2022

#2453 in Algorithms

BSD-2-Clause OR MIT

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osrandom

Welcome to osrandom 🎉

This crate provides access to your operating system's cryptographically secure random number generator.

APIs used

The following native APIs are used:

  • macOS/iOS: SecRandomCopyBytes from the security framework
  • FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD: arc4random_buf (which does not use ARC4 anymore but a secure PRF like ChaCha20)
  • Windows: CryptGenRandom with PROV_RSA_FULL as provider
  • Linux-GNU: getrandom for glibc versions >= 2.25 or /dev/urandom for ancient distributions
  • Linux-MUSL: /dev/urandom for ancient distributions

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