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		TwoBit on Feb 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When Random Isn't Random Enough: Lessons from an O... FWIW, Windows has an equivalent of /dev/urandom. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37...

nitrogen on Feb 10, 2014 [–]

Is CryptGenRandom equally secure as /dev/urandom, or are there ways to use it wrong?

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