yeah, I keep hearing about this.  Some questions come to mind...

  wasn't one of these MS RNG's tested via FIPS at some point?

  what's the logic in concluding Win2k and WinXP and Vista have
  different RNG's?

  is this really the end of the world?  I mean, is there some
  specific attack?  is there a proof-of-concept code snippet
  that breaks (ssl, ipsec, smime, code signing, ...) something in
  windows?

  why, if win2k is essentially end-of-life, would they not
  check windows xp?  this makes me question their methodology.

Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> This paper justifies the decision not to rely on the Windows Random
> Number Generator.
> 
> http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/419.pdf
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