AW: [sqlite] Obtaining randomness on win32

2007-01-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
> randomness as you need. But I do not know how to do this on > win32 and wince. The current implementation seeds the random As Michael already suggested, you should use the CryptoAPI (CryptAquireContext, CryptGenRandom). This API is supported by all 32 bit desktop versions and by Windows CE

AW: [sqlite] Obtaining randomness on win32

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Ruck
I'm not sure if this helps, but QueryPerformanceCounter could be a source of semirandom 64-bit integers. It returns the processors running time in nanoseconds. I'm not aware of anything, which returns really random values. On Windows itself you could use the CryptAcquireContext, CryptGenRandom