Secure Randomness in Go 1.22

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<h1>Secure Randomness in Go 1.22</h1>
  
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  Russ Cox and Filippo Valsorda<br>
  2 May 2024
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  <p>Computers aren&rsquo;t random.

On the contrary, hardware designers work very hard to make sure computers run every program the same way every time.
So when a program does need random numbers, that requires extra effort.
Traditonally, computer scientists and programming languages
have distinguished between two different kinds of random numbers:
statistical and cryptographic randomness.
In Go, those are provided by math/rand
and crypto/rand, respectively.
This post is about how Go 1.22 brings the two closer together,
by using a cryptographic random number source i…

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