// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package rand implements a cryptographically secure // random number generator. package rand import "io" // Reader is a global, shared instance of a cryptographically // secure random number generator. // // On Linux and FreeBSD, Reader uses getrandom(2) if available, /dev/urandom otherwise. // On OpenBSD, Reader uses getentropy(2). // On other Unix-like systems, Reader reads from /dev/urandom. // On Windows systems, Reader uses the RtlGenRandom API. // On Wasm, Reader uses the Web Crypto API. var Reader io.Reader // Read is a helper function that calls Reader.Read using io.ReadFull. // On return, n == len(b) if and only if err == nil. func Read(b []byte) (n int, err error) { return io.ReadFull(Reader, b) }