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Well that should be easy.  The Windows OS itself is a well-known source of
entropy. :)

TaB

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:16:30AM -0400, Thomas Beckett spoke thusly:
>>          One question for starters:  to generate a new key, GPG needs
>> a
>> string of random numbers, right?  Can a Wintel machine generate a
>> reliably  random number?
>
> In order to get reliably random numbers in wintel, typically a source of
> entropy is needed. I'm not sure how GPG does it, but with PGP you used
> to be asked to bang on the keyboard while it was generating.
>
> I'm guessing that GPG uses some other entropy gathering method,
> though. I expect it's do-able, but would require some interesting hacks.
>
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