On Tue, Mar 30, 2010, Anthony Gabrielson wrote: > Hello, > > I've been searching around and I'm not finding much on > OpenSSL and random numbers. I'm trying to figure out how to best use > RAND_bytes and RAND_pseudo_bytes; do I still need to worry about entropy or > does OpenSSL take care of it for me these days? If I do need to worry about > it, does anyone have any suggestions on where I can look for pointers for > use with windows? >
You can use RAND_bytes() on Windows and the OpenSSL PRNG will be automatically seeded from various sources of entropy. If you're only using OpenSSL for random numbers then you could alternatively use other Windows specific APIs such as CryptGenRandom() of CryptoAPI. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
