Entropy Source under Win32

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Rich wrote:

>   (I'm posting this back to the group in case there are any other Win32
> users who are interetred)
> 
>   Please forgive my asking this again, but are you saying that the Win32
> version does have a secure EGD now and that it is offers similar
> security as PGP?  No worries?   

Actually Windows is quite good in delivering much random -
everything is different with every use :-)

We use the same methods Peter Gutmann uses for his cryptlib and
actually it is pretty the same source code.  He has done quite a lot
of research in this area and so I think the random numbers are okay.

  Werner

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