-----Original Message----- From: Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2022 1:32 AM To: Norman Hamer <NHamer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [PATCH] Win32 use BCryptGenRandom to ensure the CNG FIPS RNG is used On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 05:23:54PM +0000, Norman Hamer wrote: > + NTSTATUS status = BCryptGenRandom(NULL, buf, len, BCRYPT_USE_SYSTEM_PREFERRED_RNG); > + return status ? -1 : 0; Is this available on all Windows versions that someone might care about nowadays? It looks like BCryptGenRandom was added after Windows XP which was the version used when os_get_random() was implemented in this manner. I guess no one should really be using Windows XP more, but I don't really know what to expect about the use cases for the Windows builds of wpa_supplicant. -- Yes. Microsoft ended all security patches/support for XP in 2014. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
