Crate crypto_api_osrandom
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crypto_api_osrandom
Welcome to crypto_api_osrandom
🎉
About
This crate implements access to your operating system’s cryptographically secure random number
generator via crypto_api
.
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
withPROV_RSA_FULL
as provider - Linux:
getrandom
for glibc versions >= 2.25 or/dev/urandom
for ancient distributions
Modules
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