crypto

Documentation

Overview

Package crypto provides functions to for cryptography and random numbers.

Index

• Constants
• func GenerateCertificateSerialNumber() (*big.Int, error)
• func GenerateRandomBytes(length int) ([]byte, error)

Constants

const (
	// RNGLengthDefault is the number of bytes used for generating nonces.
	RNGLengthDefault = 32
)

Functions

func GenerateCertificateSerialNumber

func GenerateCertificateSerialNumber() (*big.Int, error)

GenerateCertificateSerialNumber generates a random serial number for an X.509 certificate.

func GenerateRandomBytes

func GenerateRandomBytes(length int) ([]byte, error)

GenerateRandomBytes reads length bytes from getrandom(2) if available, /dev/urandom otherwise.