1 /** 2 * \file doc_rng.h 3 * 4 * \brief Random number generator (RNG) module documentation file. 5 */ 6 /* 7 * 8 * Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors 9 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 10 * 11 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may 12 * not use this file except in compliance with the License. 13 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 14 * 15 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 16 * 17 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 18 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT 19 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 20 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 21 * limitations under the License. 22 */ 23 24 /** 25 * @addtogroup rng_module Random number generator (RNG) module 26 * 27 * The Random number generator (RNG) module provides random number 28 * generation, see \c mbedtls_ctr_drbg_random(). 29 * 30 * The block-cipher counter-mode based deterministic random 31 * bit generator (CTR_DBRG) as specified in NIST SP800-90. It needs an external 32 * source of entropy. For these purposes \c mbedtls_entropy_func() can be used. 33 * This is an implementation based on a simple entropy accumulator design. 34 * 35 * Meaning that there seems to be no practical algorithm that can guess 36 * the next bit with a probability larger than 1/2 in an output sequence. 37 * 38 * This module can be used to generate random numbers. 39 */ 40
