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// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// Package rand implements a cryptographically secure
// random number generator.
package rand

import "io"

// Reader is a global, shared instance of a cryptographically
// secure random number generator.
var Reader io.Reader

// Read is a helper function that calls Reader.Read using io.ReadFull.
// On return, n == len(b) if and only if err == nil.
func Read(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
	if Reader == nil {
		panic("no rng")
	}

	return io.ReadFull(Reader, b)
}