entropy: A platform independent entropy source

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A platform independent method to obtain cryptographically strong entropy (urandom on Linux, CryptAPI on Windows, patches welcome). Users looking for cryptographically strong (number-theoretically sound) PRNGs should see the DRBG package too!


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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.2.1, 0.2.2.2, 0.2.2.3, 0.2.2.4, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.4.1, 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.1.1, 0.4.1.2, 0.4.1.3, 0.4.1.4, 0.4.1.5, 0.4.1.6, 0.4.1.7, 0.4.1.9, 0.4.1.10
Dependencies base (>=4 && <4.10), bytestring, unix [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@gmail.com>
Author Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@gmail.com>
Maintainer Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@gmail.com>
Revised Revision 1 made by AndreasAbel at 2023-04-07T07:35:02Z
Category Data, Cryptography
Home page https://github.com/TomMD/entropy
Bug tracker https://github.com/TomMD/entropy/issues
Source repo head: git clone https://github.com/TomMD/entropy
Uploaded by ThomasDuBuisson at 2013-10-11T20:24:41Z
Distributions Arch:0.4.1.10, Debian:0.4.1.6, Fedora:0.4.1.10, FreeBSD:0.3.7, LTSHaskell:0.4.1.10, NixOS:0.4.1.10, Stackage:0.4.1.10, openSUSE:0.4.1.10
Reverse Dependencies 51 direct, 3495 indirect [details]
Downloads 149678 total (290 in the last 30 days)
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Readme for entropy-0.2.2.3

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Introduction

This package allows Haskell users to easily acquire entropy for use in critical security applications by calling out to either windows crypto api, unix/linux's /dev/urandom, or the RDRAND instruction.