trag1c / ixia

Connecting secrets' security with random's versatility

Ixia

Ixia is a cryptographically secure RNG library. It mainly merges secrets' security with random's versatility, but also adds some of its own functions, such as ixia.passphrase(), ixia.shuffled() or ixia.universe_rand(). All random values are generated using urandom (or BCryptGenRandom on Windows).

Installation

Ixia is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip, or any other Python package manager:

$ pip install ixia

(Some systems may require you to use pip3, python -m pip, or py -m pip instead.)

Documentation

Ixia documentation is available at https://trag1c.github.io/ixia/.

License

Ixia is licensed under the MIT License.

⚠️ Important Notes

While supporting Python 3.8+, Ixia is based on the Python 3.12 implementation of the random module. The following changes have been made to the module since Python 3.8:

• getrandbits accepts 0 for k
• choices raises a ValueError if all weights are zero
• sample has a new counts parameter
• gauss and normal_variate have default parameter values

Additionally, Ixia executes 3.9+ deprecations, thus:

• ixia.rand_range doesn't convert non-integer types to equivalent integers
• ixia.sample doesn't support set as a sequence type
• ixia.shuffle doesn't support the random parameter