Re: Entropy sources under WinXP

Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:

Sebastian G. wrote:
You cannot directly read this value without risking a buffer overflow on Windows version before Windows Vista.

References?


The way the registry works. Since you can't aquire a lock and the value can grow unlimitedly, using a large buffer isn't sufficient. Querying the required buffer size and hen reading it would require transactional semantic over the set of these operations, which sadly is only available in Windows Vista.
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