/dev/[u]random sources

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 01:52:39PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> I think chaning the comment from
> 
> /* Mess up system entropy source. Return error if device is /dev/random. */
> 
> to
> 
> /* Mess up system entropy source. Return eventual error only if device is 
> /dev/random. */
> 
> could clarify things a bit, at least for me it took a bit of time to 

Yeah, I see what you mean.  The comment is somewhat irritating.

> Paranoic issue: how good is the default windows crypto provider? does it 
> uses (at least on the NT series, I mean) latency from h/w and so on?
> I can find no such infos on MSDN as they are provider-specific.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/security/Security/cryptgenrandom.asp

explains quite a bit what happens.

Corinna

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