Re: [Qemu-devel] error: qcrypto_random_bytes() tried to read from /dev/[u]random, even on windows

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 02:52:30PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 April 2017 at 14:36, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > FYI, both gnutls and openssl use these CryptAcquireContext/CryptGenRandom
> > methods, so I'd prefer to stick with that.
> 
> They probably need the full crypto API anyway, though...
> 
> > It seems we merely need to set CRYPT_SILENT in the flags to prevent any
> > chance of interactive prompts.
> >
> > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa379886(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> How about CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT? The docs say "in most cases this flag
> should be set".
> 
> This kind of discussion puts me off the Crypt* APIs though -- they're
> a complicated API that can easily be misused. "Please just fill
> this buffer with randomness" is a simple API that's hard to call
> wrongly...

This is the extent of gnutls's code in this area

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/blob/master/lib/nettle/sysrng-windows.c

Our API has the same usage scenario as this, hence my preference to mirror
what gnutls & other crypto libraries are using.

Regards,
Daniel
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