entropy: A platform independent entropy source
A mostly platform independent method to obtain cryptographically strong entropy
(RDRAND, urandom, CryptAPI, and patches welcome)
Users looking for cryptographically strong (number-theoretically
sound) PRNGs should see the DRBG
package too.
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Flags
Manual Flags
Name | Description | Default |
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donotgetentropy | Avoid use of the getentropy() *nix function. By default getentropy will be used if detected during compilation (this plays poorly with cross compilation). | Disabled |
Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info
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- entropy-0.4.1.10.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (revised from the package)
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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 |
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Dependencies | base (>=4.8 && <5), bytestring, ghcjs-dom (>=0.9.5.0 && <1), jsaddle, unix, Win32 (>=2.5) [details] |
Tested with | ghc ==9.10.1, ghc ==9.8.2, ghc ==9.6.5, ghc ==9.4.8, ghc ==9.2.8, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==8.10.7, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.6.5, ghc ==8.4.4, ghc ==8.2.2, ghc ==8.0.2 |
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> |
Revised | Revision 2 made by AndreasAbel at 2024-06-30T19:11:37Z |
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 |
Uploaded | by ThomasDuBuisson at 2022-08-23T14:54:28Z |
Distributions | Arch:0.4.1.10, Debian:0.4.1.6, Fedora:0.4.1.10, FreeBSD:0.3.7, LTSHaskell:0.4.1.10, NixOS:0.4.1.10, Stackage:0.4.1.10, openSUSE:0.4.1.10 |
Reverse Dependencies | 52 direct, 3558 indirect [details] |
Downloads | 152949 total (260 in the last 30 days) |
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Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2022-08-23 [all 1 reports] |