entropy: A platform independent entropy source

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


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Dependencies base (>=4.8 && <5), bytestring, unix (<2.8) [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 phadej at 2022-08-15T13:30:35Z
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 2018-03-08T18:59:22Z
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
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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. Hardware RNGs (currently RDRAND, patches welcome) are supported via the hardwareRNG function.

If you wish to obtain an XOR of the hardware and system RNG consider:

import           Data.Bits (xor)
import qualified Data.ByteString as B
import qualified Control.Exception as X

xorRNG sz = do hw  <- hardwareRNG sz
               h   <- openHandle
               sys <- hGetEntropy h `X.finally` closeHandle h
               pure $ B.pack $ B.zipWith xor hw sys

This package supports Windows, {li,u}nix, QNX, and has preliminary support for HaLVM.

Typically tested on Linux and OSX - testers are as welcome as patches.

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