Great. Thanks for the info.
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> Bernhard Froehlich
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> Subject: Re: Seed PRNG on Windows
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> Edwa
Edward Chan wrote:
Thanks. I guess I should have did that first. My apologies. But I
couldn't find the answer to my next question. If the PRNG is already seeded
using the Crypto API, how many bits of entropy are used to seed it?
The following code is in crypto/rand/rand_win.c:
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> Subject: Re: Seed PRNG on Windows
>
> Edward Chan wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Just wondering what people typically use to seed the PRNG
> on Windows.
> > On linux, there is /dev/random. But there is no such device for
> > Windows.
Edward Chan wrote:
Hi there,
Just wondering what people typically use to seed the PRNG on Windows.
On linux, there is /dev/random. But there is no such device for
Windows. I've heard of EGADS, but when I installed the EGADS service,
I found it to be a huge memory hog. Are there any other opt
