| Paul Bakker | 37ca75d | 2011-01-06 12:28:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | /** |
| 2 | * @file |
| 3 | * Random number generator (RNG) module documentation file. |
| 4 | */ |
| 5 | |
| 6 | /** |
| 7 | * @addtogroup rng_module Random number generator (RNG) module |
| 8 | * |
| 9 | * The Random number generator (RNG) module provides random number |
| 10 | * generation, see \c havege_rand(). It uses the HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile |
| 11 | * Entropy Gathering and Expansion) software heuristic which is claimed |
| 12 | * to be an unpredictable or empirically strong* random number generation. |
| 13 | * |
| 14 | * \* Meaning that there seems to be no practical algorithm that can guess |
| 15 | * the next bit with a probability larger than 1/2 in an output sequence. |
| 16 | * |
| 17 | * This module can be used to generate random numbers. |
| 18 | */ |