Programming .NET Security

Name

RNGCryptoServiceProvider

Synopsis

public sealed class RNGCryptoServiceProvider : RandomNumberGenerator {
// Public Constructors
   public RNGCryptoServiceProvider(  );
   public RNGCryptoServiceProvider(byte[  ] rgb);
   public RNGCryptoServiceProvider(CspParameters cspParams);
   public RNGCryptoServiceProvider(string str);
// Public Instance Methods
   public override void GetBytes(byte[  ] data);
 // overrides RandomNumberGenerator
   public override void GetNonZeroBytes(byte[  ] data);
 // overrides RandomNumberGenerator
                  // Protected Instance Methods
   protected override void Finalize(  );
 // overrides object
}

This subclass of RandomNumberGenerator is the default random number generator implementation, and is a wrapper around the Windows Crypto API.

Hierarchy

System.Object → RandomNumberGenerator → RNGCryptoServiceProvider