RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR API(9)

💖 Random number generator API 💖

Okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — this is the Random number generator API page, and it's short but iconic. ✨

The random number generator API is the one you use with ciphers of type CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_RNG — and yes, that's the type that shows up as "rng" in /proc/crypto. Periodt. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./include/crypto/rng.h — struct rng_alg(9)
• crypto_stdrng_get_bytes(9)
• crypto_alloc_rng(9)
• crypto_rng_alg(9)
• crypto_free_rng(9)
• crypto_rng_generate(9)
• crypto_rng_get_bytes(9)
• crypto_rng_reset(9)
• crypto_rng_seedsize(9)

xoxo, from the source/version girlies 💖 — ./include/crypto, dated October 2026. 🎀