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List:       secprog
Subject:    RE: Microsoft .NET PRNG
From:       pgut001 () cs ! auckland ! ac ! nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date:       2004-07-31 6:16:23
Message-ID: E1BqnAN-0006o5-VW () medusa01
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"Pablo Milano" <pmsf@datatransfer.com.ar> writes:

>I'm looking for the same information. I want to know which method does MS
>Crypto API use in order to obtain "strong" random seeds. The most in-deep
>information about this I could find was
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/seccrypto/security/cpgenrandom.asp.
>Anyway, I'm still not sure if what is explained there is what the function
>SHOULD do, or what the function ACTUALLY DOES.

The best description that I know of is in the second edition (not the first)
of "Writing Secure Code" by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc.

Peter.

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