1# rand_hc 2 3[![Test Status](https://github.com/rust-random/rand/workflows/Tests/badge.svg?event=push)](https://github.com/rust-random/rand/actions) 4[![Latest version](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/rand_hc.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/rand_hc) 5[[![Book](https://img.shields.io/badge/book-master-yellow.svg)](https://rust-random.github.io/book/) 6[![API](https://img.shields.io/badge/api-master-yellow.svg)](https://rust-random.github.io/rand/rand_hc) 7[![API](https://docs.rs/rand_hc/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/rand_hc) 8[![Minimum rustc version](https://img.shields.io/badge/rustc-1.36+-lightgray.svg)](https://github.com/rust-random/rand#rust-version-requirements) 9 10A cryptographically secure random number generator that uses the HC-128 11algorithm. 12 13HC-128 is a stream cipher designed by Hongjun Wu[^1], that we use as an 14RNG. It is selected as one of the "stream ciphers suitable for widespread 15adoption" by eSTREAM[^2]. 16 17Links: 18 19- [API documentation (master)](https://rust-random.github.io/rand/rand_hc) 20- [API documentation (docs.rs)](https://docs.rs/rand_hc) 21- [Changelog](https://github.com/rust-random/rand/blob/master/rand_hc/CHANGELOG.md) 22 23[rand]: https://crates.io/crates/rand 24[^1]: Hongjun Wu (2008). ["The Stream Cipher HC-128"]( 25 http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/p3ciphers/hc/hc128_p3.pdf). 26 *The eSTREAM Finalists*, LNCS 4986, pp. 39–47, Springer-Verlag. 27 28[^2]: [eSTREAM: the ECRYPT Stream Cipher Project]( 29 http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/) 30 31 32## Crate Features 33 34`rand_hc` is `no_std` compatible. It does not require any functionality 35outside of the `core` lib, thus there are no features to configure. 36 37 38# License 39 40`rand_hc` is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the 41Apache License (Version 2.0). 42 43See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) and [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and 44[COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details. 45