New amd64 implementations?

[Jussi Kivilinna]

On 26.06.2013 20:15, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:38, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:
> 
>> Is it ok, if I make new branch for mingw64 support work?
> 
> No, that is not needed.
> 
>> Microsoft appears to have made transition from WIN32 to WIN64 easy; the size of 'long' remains at 4 bytes and type sizes in Win API appear to remain mostly the same with exception of pointer
>> types (HANDLE, HWIN, etc) and pointer sized integers.
> 
> We need to reevaluate the entire rndw32.c.  In fact a rndw64.c should be
> written.  All other things will be simple to fix.
> 

Would it make sense to re-evaluate rndw32.c for current Windows versions (32/64bit) and drop support for Windows versions that have reached end of life?

As I understand it, the CryptGenRandom function is supported by all current Windows and is the '/dev/urandom' of WIN32.

-Jussi

> 
> Shalom-Salam,
> 
>    Werner
>