On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Stephan Müller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > But you bring up an interesting point: if it is true you say that it is hard > for people to use differnent types of APIs regarding entropy and random > numbers right (which I would concur with), and considering that you imply that > get_random_bytes, get_random_u32 and get_random_u64 have the same security > strength, why do we have these three APIs to begin with? The get_random_bytes > API would then be more than enough. Because there are efficiences we can benefit from for getting integer sized outputs. Use get_random_{u32,u64} when you want a secure random number. Use get_random_bytes when you want a longer secure random bytestring.