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kcapi_rng_get_bytes

Convenience function to generate random bytes

ssize_t kcapi_rng_get_bytes(uint8_t * buffer, size_t outlen);

buffer

[out] filled with the random number

outlen

[in] buffer length

This convenience function generates random bytes of the size of outlen and stores them into the provided buffer.

return size of random number generated upon success; -EIO - data cannot be obtained

Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>

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