M_Random

M_Random is a REAL Studio/REALbasic module that will call the cryptographically strong native random number functions within each OS. In Mac OS and Linux, that's /dev/random. In Windows, it's RtlGenRandom. The module comes with a harness project that demonstrates its features, and the module itself is well commented.

These are the functions it implements:

• RandomDouble
• RandomBoolean
• RandomInt8
• RandomInt16
• RandomInt32
• RandomInt64
• RandomUInt8
• RandomUInt16
• RandomUInt32
• RandomUInt64
• InRange( value1, value2 )
• InRange_Int64( value1, value2 )
• BetweenValues( value1, value2 ) alias for InRange
• BetweenValues_Int64( value1, value2 ) alias for InRange_Int64
• LessThan( value )
• LessThan_Int64( value )
• ArrayInRange( cnt, value1, value2 )
• ArrayInRange_Int64( cnt, value1, value2 )
• RandomMemoryBlock( mbSize )

• Random.BetweenValues Like InRange, but values can be given in any order
• Random.SeedFromEntropy Same as using Random.Seed = M_Random.RandomUInt32

Requirements:

REALbasic 2005r1 or later.