rbyte: Generate random bytes from the platform-specific...

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Generate random bytes from the platform-specific cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

Description

Generate random bytes from the platform-specific cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator

Usage

rbyte(n, type = "chr")

Arguments

n	Number of random bytes to generate. Note: if the entropy pool is exhausted on your system it may not be able to provide the requested number of bytes - in this case an error is thrown.
type	Type of returned values - 'raw' or "chr". Default: "chr".

Value

A raw vector or a hexadecimal string

Platform notes

The method used for generating random values varies depending on the operating system (OS):

• For macOS and BSDs: arc4random_buf()

• For linux: syscall(SYS_getrandom())

• For win32: BCryptGenRandom()

All these random number generators are internally seeded by the OS using entropy gathered from multiple sources and are considered cryptographically secure.

Examples

rbyte(16, type = "chr")
rbyte(16, type = 'raw')

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