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class method

OpenSSL::Random.seed

(::String seed) -> ::String

seed(str) → str

ext/openssl/ossl_rand.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE
ossl_rand_seed(VALUE self, VALUE str)
{
    StringValue(str);
    RAND_seed(RSTRING_PTR(str), RSTRING_LENINT(str));

    return str;
}

::seed is equivalent to ::add where entropy is length of str.

See also .random_bytes .status? .random_add .write_random_file also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0