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§osrandom
Welcome to osrandom
🎉
A really minimal wrapper around your operating system’s cryptographically secure random number generator.
§APIs used
The following native APIs are used:
- macOS/iOS:
SecRandomCopyBytes
from the built-inSecurity.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-GNU:
getrandom
for glibc versions >= 2.25 or/dev/urandom
for ancient distributions - Linux-MUSL:
/dev/urandom
for ancient distributions