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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:18:57 +0200
From: Lapo Luchini <lapo AT lapo DOT it>
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CC: Peter Gutmann <pgut001 AT cs DOT auckland DOT ac DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Patches for gnupg 1.0.7 / cygwin 1.3.10
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>
>
>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 AT lapo DOT it (PGP & X.509 keys available)
http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)



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