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Re: /dev/[u]random sources
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:48:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random sources
- References: <3CE64087.1090400@lapo.it>
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
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