3 Dec
2014
3 Dec
'14
6:03 p.m.
[Niall Douglas]
Out of curiosity, does VC thunk through to the Windows Crypto API, and therefore require that the environment variable block contains the right COM initialisation magic (I ran into this "feature" recently, it was confounding)?
VC's random_device calls the CRT's rand_s which calls Windows' RtlGenRandom. There's no COM interaction, to my knowledge. (rand_s has a different codepath for Windows Store apps). STL