At 09:09 28.01.2002 -0500, you wrote:
>             I was under the impression that on windows OpenSSL uses
>RAND_screen which will obtain random data from the screen and mouse events?
>Shouldn't you use that? 

Exactly this function (in crypto/rand/rand_win.c) i had on my mind, but i
was too lazy to lookup the name.
Jeffrey has already described in more detail how this function gathers
entropy.
Ciao,
Richard   
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