I have confirmed that the code included in libgcrypt_11 part of the 
wireshark-setup-99.5-SVN-20350.exe has fixed the issue.

Thank you,

Robin Caron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald Combs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Developer support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Slow startup delay caused 
byuninitializedvariable...> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I cannot find the source code for gcry_rndw32_gather_random.  In the
>> patched version of libgcrypt used with Wireshark 0.99.4 there is an
>> uninitialized variable being checked and since it is not consistently
>> set will cause the slow random bit generation code to be used instead of
>> existing after getting them using CryptGenRandom.  The bad code
>> reference is right after the memset done to clear out the random bits.
>>
>> I would be glad to offer a patch if someone can point me to where the
>> correct code for this function is.
>
> Can you try one of the recent installers from
>
>  http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/win32/
>
> and see if the  problem still exists?  I updated the GNUTLS package in
> the installer recently, which hopefully fixes the problem.
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