Re: [Boost-users] Newbie question: Random numbers.

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-19 11:08:51

Andrew Holden wrote:

> Does anybody else know of other good sources of entropy to seed the
> generator?

On Windows I use QueryPerformanceCounter, GetCurrentProcessId, 
GetCurrentThreadId and GlobalMemoryStatus as entropy sources. OpenSSL uses 
the contents of the screen.