Crypt::SysRandom::XS - Perl interface to system randomness, XS version
Contents
Backends
At build-time, it will try the following backends in order:
• getrandom
This backend is available on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris
• arc4random
This interface is supported on most BSDs and Mac.
• BCryptGenRandom
This backend is available on Windows (Vista and newer)
• rdrand64
This is available on "x86_64" architectures using most compilers.
• rdrand32
This is available on "x86_64" and "x86" architectures using most compilers.
Copyright And License
This software is copyright (c) 2025 by Leon Timmermans.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
programming language system itself.
perl v5.40.1 2025-06-09 Crypt::SysRandom::XS(3pm)
Description
This module uses whatever C interface is available to procure cryptographically random data from the
system.
Functions
random_bytes($count)
This will fetch a string of $count random bytes containing cryptographically secure random data.
Name
Crypt::SysRandom::XS - Perl interface to system randomness, XS version
Synopsis
use Crypt::SysRandom::XS 'random_bytes';
my $random = random_bytes(16);
Version
version 0.009
