Re: [PATCH] avail of Pentium hardware RNG (at least minimally) on Windoze

2000-08-04 Thread agray
This may not be a good idea in the long run - not due to its intended purpose, but due to conflicting function calls between crypt32 on windows2000 and within libeay on the win2k platform. I've noticed them within the win2k sdk and if NOCRYPT is not defined the build will fail on 2k using the cry

Re: [PATCH] avail of Pentium hardware RNG (at least minimally) on Windoze

2000-08-06 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
From: "Penney, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jason.penney> The new generation of Pentiums coming out on the market jason.penney> have a genuine (hardware) RNG built into them. jason.penney> jason.penney> On Windows, at least, let the CryptoAPI initialize the jason.penney> random number generator.

Re: [PATCH] avail of Pentium hardware RNG (at least minimally) on Windoze

2000-08-06 Thread Dr Stephen Henson
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > > From: "Penney, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > jason.penney> The new generation of Pentiums coming out on the market > jason.penney> have a genuine (hardware) RNG built into them. > jason.penney> > jason.penney> On Windows, at least, let the CryptoAPI init