2010-04-07 Jb Evain <jbevain@novell.com>
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1 //
2 // System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator
3 //
4 // author:
5 // Duco Fijma (duco@lorentz.xs4all.nl)
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30 using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
32 namespace System.Security.Cryptography {
34 #if !NET_2_1
35 [ComVisible (true)]
36 #endif
37 public abstract class RandomNumberGenerator {
39 protected RandomNumberGenerator ()
43 public static RandomNumberGenerator Create ()
45 // create the default random number generator
46 return Create ("System.Security.Cryptography.RandomNumberGenerator");
49 public static RandomNumberGenerator Create (string rngName)
51 return (RandomNumberGenerator) (CryptoConfig.CreateFromName (rngName));
54 public abstract void GetBytes (byte[] data);
56 public abstract void GetNonZeroBytes (byte[] data);