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crypto.randomBytes documentation needs improvement #3081
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crypto.randomBytesdocumentation is quite confusing on whether or not the function throws on a lack of entropy. The code shows that it does, but the note below says that it does not. I'm currently under the impression that it does not throw on low entropy, so this needs to be fixed. Here is how it looks now:Refs to: #3073 (comment) and following discussion, e5e5980, f68a116, and
RAND_bytes()docs. Also #813.