Modern Math CryptoULongInt

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CryptoULongInt

Returns a secure random 64-bit value from the operating system.

Syntax

CryptoULongInt( )

Examples

#import "std/numeric"
using numeric

'' Eight cryptographically secure bytes as one number
dim as uint64 a = CryptoULongInt( )
dim as uint64 b = CryptoULongInt( )

print a <> b                 '' -1 (true), with overwhelming probability

'' This is what RngFromEntropy uses for its seed

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