qrand

This package presents a client for the QRNG@ANU JSON API. Qrand exposes one function, qrand.Read(p []byte) that writes len(p) bytes into p. You can use this function to seed mature random number generator packages like math/rand and frand.

Install

go get github.com/ishuah/qrand

Usage

The following example demonstrates how to use qrand.Read(p []byte) to seed math/rand.

package main

import (
	"encoding/binary"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"math/rand"

	"github.com/ishuah/qrand"
)

func main() {

	key := [8]byte{}
	len, err := qrand.Read(key[:]) // Read 8 random bytes into key
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	fmt.Printf("Wrote %d quantum random bytes, result: %v\n", len, key)

	seed := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(key[:]) // Convert []byte to uint64
	fmt.Printf("Seed: %d\n", seed)
	rand.Seed(int64(seed)) // Seed math/rand
	fmt.Printf("rand.Int() -> %d\n", rand.Int())
}