Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3CFF2901.6060305@lapo.it> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:18:57 +0200 From: Lapo Luchini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020603 X-Accept-Language: it, en, fr, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mailing List: CygWin CC: Peter Gutmann Subject: Re: Patches for gnupg 1.0.7 / cygwin 1.3.10 References: <200206060834.UAA460269@ruru.cs.auckland.ac.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >The CAPI generator is, um, of variable quality. I cover one version in >http://www.cryptoapps.com/~peter/06_random.pdf. Note that the code appears to >have changed over time, and is now considerably improved (the details will be >in the updated version of the above paper). I don't know in which versions of >Windows the improved versions appeared, or what the specific improvements over >time may have been. > You can of course submit a patch to use our own prng, seeding it also with CAPI data, of course ]=) -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/