New amd64 implementations?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Thu Jun 27 20:21:57 CEST 2013


On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:33, jussi.kivilinna at iki.fi said:

> 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?

Better don't touch it ;-)  IIRC, I already remove some old code.

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

I wouldn't trust CryptGenRandom.  It is used only as one entropy source.

What should really be done is to compare the changes Peter did in
Cryptlib and port them back to Libgcrypt. 


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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