kcapi_rng_get_bytes(3)

kcapi_rng_get_bytes3

Convenience function to generate random bytes

Usage

ssize_t kcapi_rng_get_bytes(uint8_t * buffer, size_t outlen);

Arguments

buffer

[out] filled with the random number

outlen

[in] buffer length

Overview

This convenience function generates random bytes of the size of outlen and stores them into the provided buffer.

return size of random number generated upon success; -EIO - data cannot be obtained

Releases

3 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13

Author

Stephan Mueller <[email protected]>

Author.

From libkcapi-dev 1.4.0-1+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.