Module: SecureRandom

Extended by:

Random::Formatter

Defined in:

lib/securerandom.rb

Overview

Secure random number generator interface.

This library is an interface to secure random number generators which are suitable for generating session keys in HTTP cookies, etc.

You can use this library in your application by requiring it:

require 'securerandom'

It supports the following secure random number generators:

• openssl

• /dev/urandom

• Win32

SecureRandom is extended by the Random::Formatter module which defines the following methods:

• alphanumeric

• base64

• choose

• gen_random

• hex

• rand

• random_bytes

• random_number

• urlsafe_base64

• uuid

These methods are usable as class methods of SecureRandom such as SecureRandom.hex.

If a secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.

Constant Summary

VERSION =

The version

"0.3.1"

Constants included from Random::Formatter

Random::Formatter::ALPHANUMERIC

Class Method Summary

• .bytes(n) ⇒ Object

  Returns a random binary string containing size bytes.

Methods included from Random::Formatter

alphanumeric, base64, hex, random_bytes, urlsafe_base64, uuid, uuid_v7

Class Method Details

.bytes(n) ⇒ Object

Returns a random binary string containing size bytes.

See Random.bytes

# File 'lib/securerandom.rb', line 50

def bytes(n)
  return gen_random(n)
end