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Creates a readable stream producing cryptographically strong pseudo-random data using `crypto.randomBytes()`

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random-bytes-readable-stream

Creates a readable stream producing cryptographically strong pseudo-random data using crypto.randomBytes()

It's like a cross-platform fs.createReadStream('/dev/urandom').

Install

$ npm install random-bytes-readable-stream

Usage

import randomBytesReadableStream from 'random-bytes-readable-stream';

randomBytesReadableStream({size: 10}).pipe(process.stdout);

API

randomBytesReadableStream(options?)

Returns a stream.Readable.

By default, it produces infinite data.

options

Type: Object

size

Type: number
Default: Infinity

The total size to be produced by the stream in bytes.