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package org.apache.sshd.common.random;
import org.apache.sshd.common.NamedResource;
/**
* A pseudo random number generator.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:dev@mina.apache.org">Apache MINA SSHD Project</a>
*/
public interface Random extends NamedResource {
/**
* Fill the buffer with random values
*
* @param bytes The bytes to fill
* @see #fill(byte[], int, int)
*/
default void fill(byte[] bytes) {
fill(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
}
/**
* Fill part of bytes with random values.
*
* @param bytes byte array to be filled.
* @param start index to start filling at.
* @param len length of segment to fill.
*/
void fill(byte[] bytes, int start, int len);
/**
* Returns a pseudo-random uniformly distributed {@code int}
* in the half-open range [0, n).
*
* @param n The range upper limit
* @return The randomly selected value in the range
*/
int random(int n);
}