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

[Matt Caswell via RT]

On Mon Dec 21 11:07:24 2015, dragon at dancingdragon.be wrote:
> 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.

For the record this became this pull request and has now been merged:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/1079

Closing this ticket.

Matt

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