AlphaRNG Documentation

This is the documentation for the AlphaRNG. The AlphaRNG quick start guide can be found in this link.

General

• Software & Documentation Kit contents

Utilities

• Building utilities on Linux and macOS
• alrandom kernel module
• alrng utility
• run-alrng-pserver.sh script

Utilities and components available only for Windows

• entropy-server for Windows

Building AlphaRNG utilities and components for Windows

Detailed information on how to build utilities and components with Visual Studio can be found in this link

Testing

• Performance testing with alperftest
• Quality testing on Ubuntu
• Diagnostic testing

Source code examples

• Python source code examples for use with entropy-server and AlphaRNG-64.dll on Windows platforms
• C source code examples for Linux, macOS, and freeBSD using a C wrapper around the AlphaRNG C++ API
• C++ source code examples for Linux, macOS, freeBSD, and Windows using AlphaRNG Software API
• C++ source code example for generating random sequence of unque integers using AlphaRNG Software API
• C++ Windows source code examples for connecting to entropy-server using AlphaRNG Software API
• C# source code example for connecting to entropy-server using named pipe
• C# source code example for using with entropy-server and AlphaRNG-64.dll
• VBA Excel macro source code examples for connecting to entropy-server using named pipe
• Java source code example for Windows for use with entropy-server
• Java source code example for Linux
• Delphi source code example for generating random numbers between 0 and 1 using entropy-server and AlphaRNG-32.dll (AlphaRNG-64.dll)
• Delphi source code example for connecting to entropy-server and retrieving random bytes using named pipe
• Delphi source code example for connecting to entropy-server and retrieving a random integer number within a specific range using named pipe
• Delphi source code example for connecting to entropy-server and retrieving a random real number within a specific range using named pipe
• Delphi source code examples for retrieving data from entropy-server using AlphaRNG-32.dll or AlphaRNG-64.dll