Re: Source for entropy on Windows platforms with CryptoAPI installed

2006-10-20 Thread Andy Polyakov
It just occurred to me that the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed (type REG_BINARY) contains the latest seeded value from everything that CryptoAPI takes into account when generating its random seed. CryptoAPI permutes it with RC4 to come up with a pseudo-ran

Source for entropy on Windows platforms with CryptoAPI installed

2006-10-13 Thread Kyle Hamilton
It just occurred to me that the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed (type REG_BINARY) contains the latest seeded value from everything that CryptoAPI takes into account when generating its random seed. CryptoAPI permutes it with RC4 to come up with a pseudo-ran