Ixia

Ixia is a cryptographically secure Python RNG library. It mainly merges secrets' security with random's versatility, but also rolls some of its own functions, such as ixia.passphrase(), ixia.shuffled(), or ixia.universe_rand(). All random values are generated using urandom (or BCryptGenRandom onWindows).

Installation

Ixia is available on PyPI and can be installed with pip, or any other Python package manager:

pip install ixia

(Some systems may require you to use pip3, python -m pip, or py -m pip instead.)

Documentation

Ixia documentation is available at https://trag1c.github.io/ixia/.

[!warning] While supporting Python 3.9+, Ixia is based on the Python 3.13 implementation of the random module. The following changes have been made to the module since Python 3.9:

• gauss, expovariate and normalvariate have default parameter values
• binomialvariate was added

Additionally, Ixia executes 3.9+ deprecations, thus:

• ixia.rand_range doesn't convert non-integer types to equivalent integers
• ixia.sample doesn't support set as a sequence type
• ixia.shuffle doesn't support the random parameter

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

Please open an issue before submitting a pull request (doesn't apply to minor changes like typos).

To get started:

1. Clone your fork of the project.
2. Install the project with uv:

uv sync

3. After you're done, use the following just recipes to check your changes (or run the commands manually):

just check     # pytest, mypy, ruff
just coverage  # pytest (with coverage), interrogate (docstring coverage)

License

ixia is licensed under the MIT License.
© trag1c, 2022–2025