SECURITY-RANDOM(2) System Calls Manual SECURITY-RANDOM(2)

random: randomint, randombuf - random number generation

include "security.m";
random := load Random Random->PATH;
randomint:  fn(which: int): int;
randombuf:  fn(which, n: int): array of byte;

Randomint and randombuf return random or not-quite-random data obtained from /dev/random or /dev/notquiterandom. Randomint returns a random integer; randombuf returns an array of length n filled with random bytes. In both functions, which may be either ReallyRandom or NotQuiteRandom to select the random data source.

/dev/random
/dev/notquiterandom

/appl/lib/random.b

rand (2), cons (3)