entropy: A platform independent entropy source
A platform independent method to obtain cryptographically strong entropy
(RDRAND when available anywhere, urandom on nix, CryptAPI on Windows, patches welcome).
Users looking for cryptographically strong (number-theoretically
sound) PRNGs should see the DRBG package too.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1, 0.2, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 0.2.2.1, 0.2.2.2, 0.2.2.3, 0.2.2.4, 0.3, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.4.1, 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.3.7, 0.3.8, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.1.1, 0.4.1.2, 0.4.1.3, 0.4.1.4, 0.4.1.5, 0.4.1.6, 0.4.1.7, 0.4.1.9, 0.4.1.10, 0.4.1.11 |
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| Dependencies | base (>=4.5 && <5), bytestring, unix [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==7.8.2 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@gmail.com> |
| Author | Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@gmail.com> |
| Maintainer | Thomas DuBuisson <thomas.dubuisson@gmail.com> |
| Uploaded | by ThomasDuBuisson at 2014-10-26T23:40:50Z |
| Revised | Revision 1 made by ThomasDuBuisson at 2015-01-14T18:17:14Z |
| Category | Data, Cryptography |
| Home page | https://github.com/TomMD/entropy |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/TomMD/entropy/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/TomMD/entropy |
| Distributions | Arch:0.4.1.11, Debian:0.4.1.6, Fedora:0.4.1.11, FreeBSD:0.3.7, LTSHaskell:0.4.1.11, NixOS:0.4.1.11, Stackage:0.4.1.11, openSUSE:0.4.1.11 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 55 direct, 3680 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 154875 total (122 in the last 30 days) |
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Readme for entropy-0.3.4
[back to package description]Introduction
This package allows Haskell users to easily acquire entropy for use in
critical security applications by calling out to either windows crypto api,
unix/linux's /dev/urandom, or the RDRAND instruction.
This package supports Windows, {li,u}nix, QNX, and has preliminary support for HaLVM.
