The non-thread-safe nature of RAND_poll for Win32 is something I need to address as it's impossible given the use of my library to expect RAND_poll to be called before other threads exist.  This leads me to the question of how good a random source is the CryptGenRandom function on Windows.  If it is a good enough source, then why bother with everything else that is done inside RAND_poll?  The MSDN documentation makes it sound like similar things are being done for their random number seeding as is done in RAND_poll.
 
Regards,
 
Steven
 

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