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		bollockitis on June 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The History of Random.org (2009) What about Windows? Is urandom available via MSYS/Cygwin/WSL and is its behavior consistent?

dfox on June 10, 2019 [–]

Windows has CryptGenRandom(), which calls into somewhat convoluted userspace CSPRNG.

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