Re: [Boost-users] [Random] Good Truly-Random Seed

On 21 April 2010 13:46, Bill Buklis wrote:

For Windows, I think the GetTickCount Windows API function should be sufficient for a random seed.

I suspect that may lead to cold boot problems. Besides, it looks like the answer may be as simple as calling ADVAPI32!RtlGenRandom, rand_s, or similar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptGenRandom.