skalibs/doc/librandom, branch main The skarnet.org C programming library https://git.skarnet.org/cgit/skalibs/atom/doc/librandom?h=main 2026-04-04T16:09:37Z Update deps/docs/mirrors 2026-04-04T16:09:37Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2026-04-04T16:09:37Z urn:sha1:ca2b7e2012537d752969dcb78935077abb92c2de doc: fix URLs 2020-10-04T01:06:16Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2020-10-04T01:06:16Z urn:sha1:f3d5157564992f1ef9f390b3ce0c7d3706ba0f19 Switch doc to schemeless URLs 2017-05-23T11:02:21Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2017-05-23T11:02:21Z urn:sha1:874166903b6bbdaef9118bad708e944f1ff3f4c0 Update documentation for the types change, with some extra fixes 2017-03-08T09:39:11Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2017-03-08T09:39:11Z urn:sha1:04905aaeffba2bc77866a4056dc3f2020a86bb26 Also remove --enable-replace-libc from configure version: 2.4.0.1 2016-11-04T17:39:32Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2016-11-04T17:39:32Z urn:sha1:3f4e0f9de28ae68548b661fbd32066b7b4b8dbb8 Clean up and modernize librandom. 2016-10-14T17:07:56Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2016-10-14T17:07:56Z urn:sha1:a1933bd1847951b959016f59ee744d1b18a00142 Correct random number generation has historically been suprisingly painful to achieve. There was no standard, every system behaved in a subtly different way, and there were a few userland initiatives to get decent randomness, all incompatible of course. The situation is a bit better now, we're heading towards some standardization. The arc4random() series of functions is a good API, and available on a lot of systems - unfortunately not Linux, but on Linux the new getrandom() makes using /dev/random obsolete. So I removed the old crap in librandom, dropped EGD support, dropped dynamic backend selection, made a single API series (random_* instead of goodrandom_* and badrandom_*), added an arc4random backend and a getrandom backend, and defaulted to /dev/urandom backed up by SURF in the worst case. This should be much smaller and logical. However, it's a major API break, so the skarnet.org stack will be changed to adapt. Make all doc mobile-readable according to Google standards 2015-05-07T10:12:01Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2015-05-07T10:12:01Z urn:sha1:d6d44bb45053f0dbf866f355d1e5a4b0b3eeaf3d initial commit with rc for skalibs-2.0.0.0 2014-09-18T18:55:44Z Laurent Bercot ska-skaware@skarnet.org 2014-09-18T18:55:44Z urn:sha1:3534b428629be185e096be99e3bd5fdfe32d5544