[fpc-pascal] quality of FPC random

Adriaan van Os fpc at microbizz.nl
Mon Aug 17 12:22:47 CEST 2015


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> In short: People interested in crypto grade randomness should use 
> specialized routines, not the built-ins provided by FPC.

So, why not provide an FPC CryptoRandom function, calling into /dev/urandom on UNIX and 
CryptGenRandom <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379942(v=vs.85).aspx> on Windows ?

Regards,

Adriaan van Os



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