[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4189] PR #512: Clean up Windows RNG

Joey Yandle via RT rt at openssl.org
Mon Dec 21 11:07:25 UTC 2015


https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/512

This PR removes all of the dangerous Windows entropy gathering routines 
in favor of standard CryptGenRandom calls, as was discussed in the 
"Improving OpenSSL default RNG" thread on openssl-dev. This fixes 
common, repeatable crashes that happen when running openssl under the VS 
debugger.

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