Safe Haskell	Safe-Inferred
Language	Haskell2010

OpenSSL.Random

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Random byte generation

Description

PRNG services See http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/rand.html For random Integer generation, see OpenSSL.BN

Synopsis

randBytes :: Int -> IO ByteString
prandBytes :: Int -> IO ByteString
add :: ByteString -> Int -> IO ()

Random byte generation

randBytes Source #

Arguments

:: Int	the number of bytes requested
-> IO ByteString

Return a bytestring consisting of the given number of strongly random bytes

prandBytes Source #

Arguments

:: Int	the number of bytes requested
-> IO ByteString

Return a bytestring consisting of the given number of pseudo random bytes

add Source #

Arguments

:: ByteString	random data to be added to the pool
-> Int	the number of bits of entropy in the first argument
-> IO ()

Add data to the entropy pool. It's safe to add sensitive information (e.g. user passwords etc) to the pool. Also, adding data with an entropy of 0 can never hurt.