Document help functions for the PRG
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#include <sodium.h>
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Sodium also provides helper functions to generate random numbers,
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leveraging `/dev/urandom` or `/dev/random` on *nix and the cryptographic
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service provider on Windows. The interface is similar to
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`arc4random(3)`. It is `fork(2)`-safe but not thread-safe.
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uint32_t randombytes_random(void);
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Return a random 32-bit unsigned value.
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void randombytes_stir(void);
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Generate a new key for the pseudorandom number generator. The file
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descriptor for the entropy source is kept open, so that the generator
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can be reseeded even in a chroot() jail.
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uint32_t randombytes_uniform(const uint32_t upper_bound);
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Return a value between 0 and upper_bound using a uniform distribution.
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void randombytes_buf(void * const buf, const size_t size);
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Fill the buffer `buf` with `size` random bytes.
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int randombytes_close(void);
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Close the file descriptor or the handle for the cryptographic service
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provider.
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A custom implementation of these functions can be registered with
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`randombytes_set_implementation()`.
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