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.IX Title "Crypt::SysRandom 3"
.TH Crypt::SysRandom 3 2026-08-16 "perl v5.42.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Crypt::SysRandom \- Perl interface to system randomness
.SH VERSION
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.007
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\& use Crypt::SysRandom \*(Aqrandom_bytes\*(Aq;
\& my $random = random_bytes(16);
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This module uses whatever interface is available to procure cryptographically random data from the system.
.SH FUNCTIONS
.IX Header "FUNCTIONS"
.SS random_bytes($count)
.IX Subsection "random_bytes($count)"
This will fetch a string of \f(CW$count\fR random bytes containing cryptographically secure random date.
.SH Backends
.IX Header "Backends"
The current backends are tried in order:
.IP \(bu 4
Crypt::SysRandom::XS
.IP \(bu 4
\&\f(CW\*(C`RtlGenRandom\*(C'\fR using Win32::API
.IP \(bu 4
\&\f(CW\*(C`/dev/urandom\*(C'\fR
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Leon Timmermans.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.