cryptorng: Access System Cryptographic Pseudorandom Number Generators

Generate random bytes from the Cryptographically Secure Pseudorandom Number Generator (CSPRNG) provided by the underlying operating system. These system CSPRNGs are seeded internally by the OS with entropy it gathers and use random number generation algorithms which are considered cryptographically secure. The following system functions are used: arc4random_buf() on macOS and BSD; BCryptgenRandom() on Windows; Sys_getrandom() on Linux.

Version:	0.1.2
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2024-04-28
Author:	Mike Cheng [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Mike Cheng <mikefc at coolbutuseless.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/coolbutuseless/cryptorng/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/coolbutuseless/cryptorng
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Materials:	NEWS
CRAN checks:	cryptorng results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

cryptorng.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	cryptorng_0.1.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: cryptorng_0.1.2.zip, r-release: cryptorng_0.1.2.zip, r-oldrel: cryptorng_0.1.2.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): cryptorng_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): cryptorng_0.1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): cryptorng_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): cryptorng_0.1.2.tgz

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