"Trevor Talbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hm, something ate the last part of my message...
> 
> > Note that SQLite contains a decent PRNG which is well seeded,
> > if you are running on Mac or Linux.  (We need to work on better
> > seeding on Win32...)
> 
> The crypto framework on recent versions of Windows can be used to get
> a good quality seed.  I'm not sure it's worth trying to do better on
> older versions.  It's something that can be done dynamically, much
> like the Unicode filename stuff.
> 

I don't do windows.  Can you send suggested patches to the
sqlite3WinRandomSeed() function in os_win.c that access the
crypto framework on versions of windows that support such a
thing?  The patches will need to fall back to using 
some other universal seeding mechanism on systems that
lack the crypto framework.

--
D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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