On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: > I think chaning the comment from > > /* Mess up system entropy source. Return error if device is /dev/random. */ > > to > > /* Mess up system entropy source. Return eventual error only if device is > /dev/random. */ > > could clarify things a bit, at least for me it took a bit of time to
Yeah, I see what you mean. The comment is somewhat irritating. > Paranoic issue: how good is the default windows crypto provider? does it > uses (at least on the NT series, I mean) latency from h/w and so on? > I can find no such infos on MSDN as they are provider-specific. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/security/Security/cryptgenrandom.asp explains quite a bit what happens. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
