12 Sep
2017
12 Sep
'17
2:13 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:27 PM, degski via Boost
On 12 September 2017 at 15:40, James E. King, III via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The older WinCrypt calls are not available in some Windows platforms going forward, so this is going to become a problem pretty quickly for the community.
You worry too much, just call rand_s https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sxtz2fa8.aspx (the same thing under the hood, but taking care of any WinCrypt BCrypt, whatever issues).
I assume, this is MSVC-specific, i.e. doesn't work with MinGW?