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GENRANDOM(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual GENRANDOM(3)

genrandom, prng - random number generation

#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <mp.h>
#include <libsec.h>

void genrandom(uchar *buf, int nbytes)

void prng(uchar *buf, int nbytes)

Most security software requires a source of random or, at the very least, unguessable numbers.

Genrandom fills a buffer with bytes from the X9.17 pseudo-random number generator. The X9.17 generator is seeded by 24 truly random bytes read via truerand (see

Prng uses the native pseudo-random number generator to fill the buffer. Used with srand, this function can produce a reproducible stream of pseudo random numbers useful in testing.

Both functions may be passed to mprand (see

/src/libsec


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