SEI CERT C Coding Standard

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If an application has access to a good random source, it can fill the pbBuffer buffer with some random data before calling CryptGenRandom(). The CSP then uses this data to further randomize its internal seed. It is acceptable to omit the step of initializing the pbBuffer buffer before calling CryptGenRandom().

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#include<Wincrypt.h>

 
HCRYPTPROV hCryptProv;
union {
    BYTE bs[sizeof(long int)];
    long int li;
} rand_buf;

if(!CryptGenRandom(hCryptProv, sizeof(rand_buf), &rand_buf) {
    /* Handle error */
} else {
    printf("Random number: %ld\n", rand_buf.li);
}

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