[erlang-questions] On OTP rand module difference between OTP 19 and OTP 20

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 10:48:15AM +0200, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
:
> We should add a 'rand' plugin to the 'crypto' module that does this
> buffered crypto:strong_random_bytes/1 trick.  There is something like that
> in rand_SUITE, but we should really have an official one.
> 
> I also wonder where the sweet spot is?  64 KB seems like a lot of buffer.
> 

I have created a pull request for such an extension to the crypto module:
    https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1573 

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB