From: "Daniel Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:26 PM
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:07:13AM -0800, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Daniel Lopez wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > /dev/urandom is not available in all platforms
> >
> > right, which is why it is not portable to use directly.
>
> I was not arguing, I was just reinstating your point :)
> On NT openssl uses data from the screen. I like the idea of using truerand.c
> or whatever the genrandom program bundled with openssl uses.
Huh? No ... maybe a long time ago, but now it is digging up performance
metrics and so forth from the cpu (I'm certain - had to fix some older
SSL code that assumed we had the opcodes - they are so recent that older
MSVCs asm{} blocks couldn't parse them.)
