Re: 0.9.6 incompatible with 0.9.5a on Win32

[Ulf Moeller]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000, Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> What my code does is call RAND_status() to determine whether or not
> random data needs to be computed.  Does RAND_status() no longer simply
> provide a test, but instead performs entropy gathering?

RAND_status() simply provides a test, but the RAND functions (including
RAND_status()) may call RAND_poll() if used before the PRNG is initialized.
That turned out to be necessary because of the high number of applications
that fail to initialize the PRNG.

Of course, RAND_poll() should not take any noticeable amount of time.
Can anyone with access to Win2K help out there?

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