Re: entropy gathering on windows

[Vadim Fedukovich]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Ian Upright wrote:

> Does OpenSSL directly support prng?

There's a quite good prng implemented by OpenSSL library.

>  What would be the advantage of using a
> named socket, over using a simple ordinary socket like the EGD?

The point is to pickup good randomness source(s) available
on your host and seed the prng. A magic socket providing
some real randomness :)   would be an advantage.

best wishes,
Vadim


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