the security strength of the DRBG. The extra half is used for the nonce during instantiation.</p>

<p>More precisely, the number of bytes needed for seeding depend on the <i>security strength</i> of the DRBG, which is set to 256 by default.</p>

<h1 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1>

<p><a href="../man7/RAND.html">RAND(7)</a>, <a href="../man3/EVP_RAND.html">EVP_RAND(3)</a></p>

<h1 id="HISTORY">HISTORY</h1>

<p>This functionality was added in OpenSSL 3.0.</p>

<h1 id="COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</h1>

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