@ethersproject/random

What is @ethersproject/random?

@ethersproject/random is a part of the ethers.js library, which provides utilities for generating cryptographically secure random values. This is particularly useful in blockchain and cryptographic applications where secure randomness is crucial.

What are @ethersproject/random's main functionalities?

Generate Random Bytes

Generates a cryptographically secure random sequence of bytes. The number of bytes is specified as an argument to the function.

const { randomBytes } = require('@ethersproject/random');
const bytes = randomBytes(16);
console.log(bytes);

Generate Random Hex String

Generates a cryptographically secure random sequence of bytes and converts it to a hexadecimal string.

const { randomBytes } = require('@ethersproject/random');
const bytes = randomBytes(16);
const hexString = bytes.toString('hex');
console.log(hexString);

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The 'crypto' module in Node.js provides cryptographic functionality that includes a set of wrappers for OpenSSL's hash, HMAC, cipher, decipher, sign, and verify functions. It can also generate random bytes using the 'crypto.randomBytes' function, similar to @ethersproject/random.

uuid

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README

Random Value Utilities

EXPERIMENTAL

Please see the ethers repository for more informations.

API

@TODO

License

MIT License