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Random APIs
More documentation to come.
Platform-Specific Default Random
The implementation of the default random generator varies by platform. The implementation on each platform must be thread-safe and automatically seeded, and should be cryptographically secure to the extent possible. Currently supported platforms have the following implementation details:
- Apple platforms use
arc4random_buf(3)
. - Linux, FreeBSD, and other UNIX-like platforms use
getrandom(2)
when available; otherwise, they read from/dev/urandom
. - Fuchsia platforms use
getentropy(3)
. - Windows platforms use
BCryptGenRandom
.